Springtails: Collembola
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... Collembola (Springtails) is one of the important fauna of phylum Arthropoda and presently considered as a separate class. They are very tiny but the most successful and abundant animal in the world. The ...
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Polarization sensitivity in Collembola: an experimental study of polarotaxis in the water surface inhabiting springtail Podura aquatica
... the springtails were collected from the choice ...measured Collembola reactions to different stimulus pairs in even numbers of trials and equal numbers of trials were carried out for each stimulus ...300 ...
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Environmental effects of mosquito insecticides on saltmarsh invertebrate fauna
... were springtails (Collembola), mites (Acariformes) and ants (Hymenoptera), with smaller numbers of beetles (Coleoptera), true bugs (Heteroptera) and flies ...
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New Report of Collembola (Hexapoda: Enthognatha) from North of Iran (Larijan Region)
... Springtails are very small hexapods due to the small size, less emphasized. Because of enthognaths, no wings and hard exoskeleton and a maximum of eight simple eyes on both sides of the head are different from ...
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Evaluation of Efficacy of Fumigants and Natural Product Extracts for Management of Springtail Hypogastrura vernalis (Collembola: Hypogastruridae) and Green Peach Aphid Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
... 2 resistance, or a combination of several factors. Vegetables have many pests, including springtails and aphids. Springtails are tiny insects that have rounded shape. Their name come from the hinged spring ...
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Slow-moving soil organisms on a water highway: aquatic dispersal and survival potential of Oribatida and Collembola in running water
... and Collembola are a relevant part of the soil food web and influence soil fertility ...while springtails show no limitation in the range of 300 cm ...
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DNA metabarcoding of spiders, insects, and springtails for exploring potential linkage between above- and below-ground food webs
... In this study, we developed a DNA barcoding method targeting the nuclear ITS2 region in order to overcome the previously indicated shortcomings of the use of the mitochondrial COI region [32, 33]. Most importantly, due ...
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Potential for Management of Sclerotinia Blight of Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) caused by Sclerotinia minor with the Biological Control Agent Coniothyrium minitans
... Collembola (springtails) and the Acarina (mites) are the most abundant of the soil inhabiting animals excluding the nematodes and protozoa (41). Some of these insects are known to consume fungi and decaying ...
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Top-down and bottom-up effects on Collembola communities in soil food webs
... dwelling Collembola were negatively affected by an increase in air ...on Collembola after two decades in a subarctic plant ...reduced Collembola diversity inhabiting arctic lichen under warming, but ...
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Gluing the ‘unwettable’: soil dwelling harvestmen use viscoelastic fluids for capturing springtails
... as springtails (Collembola) and oribatid mites (Schwangart, 1907; Rimsky- Korsakow, 1924; Wachmann, 1970), which have been shown to be the major food source of these harvestmen (Adams, ...although ...
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Diversity of Springtails and Mites of a Native Forest In Southern Brazil: Relationship with the Indices of Temperature and Precipitation in the Native Environment
... and springtails during the whole sampling period (Figure ...that Collembola are usually abundant in soil, especially in the litter layer, being reported in rainforests ...
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The Hox genes Ultrabithorax and abdominal-A specify three different types of abdominal appendage in the springtail Orchesella cincta (Collembola)
... or springtails, three abdominal segments develop specialized organs that originate from paired appendage primordia which fuse at the midline: the first abdominal segment bears the collophore (ventral tube), ...
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9-2-2014 12:00 AM The Effects of Global Climate Change on Canadian Boreal Forest Collembola Communities
... al. 2006). The only significant effect of C addition was higher evenness in T12 samples under press conditions, which was comparable to T4 samples but not significantly different from T12 samples without C addition. The ...
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Diversity and Relative Abundance of Collembola in a Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Field at Aligarh
... of Collembola associated with wheat field, soil samples were taken at weekly intervals from selected field of Quarsi village located at Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh ...
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Short Term Biochemical Impacts in Cyphoderus javanus Borner (Collembola) as Potential Biomarkers of Fly Ash and Heavy Metal Pollution in Tropical Lateritic Soil
... Microcosm studies showed adverse impact of fly ash and heavy metals on major life history parameters in C. javanus. The ill effect of fly ash and heavy metals was prominent on fecundity and moulting. Preliminary stu- ...
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Effect of silver nanoparticles on the standard soil arthropod Folsomia candida (Collembola) and the eukaryote model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae
... Germany) and activated charcoal (Fluka, Buchs, Switzer- land) in a ratio of 9:1 (w/w) and cultured at 20 ± 1 °C, a light:dark cycle of 12:12 h. Containers were kept moist at all times ensuring that relative humidity of ...
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Induced cold tolerance mechanisms depend on duration of acclimation in the chill sensitive Folsomia candida (Collembola)
... Collembola are mainly inhabitants of the soil, which may buffer temperature changes. However, temperature fluctuates considerably in the upper soil layers, and many species of Collembola have the capacity ...
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Unravelling collembolan life belowground: Stoichiometry, metabolism and release of carbon and nitrogen
... in Collembola has been estimated by mass balance models or by direct ...in Collembola, and both approaches have had their advantages and ...as Collembola studies go, the animals were without ...five ...
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The effect of agricultural management on Collembola communities in agroecosystems
... as Collembola (Beare et ...particularly Collembola which are prone to desiccation (Petersen & Luxton, 1982a), this data might help us see potential interactions of tillage and ...
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IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT ON COMMUNITIES OF ORIBATIDA, GAMASINA AND COLLEMBOLA IN ITALIAN AND FRENCH VINEYARDS
... - Collembola and Oribatida as detrivores and Gamasina as predators - were selected to evaluate the impact of different management treatments adopted to recover degraded soil in ...
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