collembolan


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Synonyms for collembolan

any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern

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Endlweber K, Schadler M, Scheu S (2005) Effects of foliar and soil insecticide applications on the collembolan community of an early set-aside arable field.
This could indicate genetic variation in the ability to cope with the toxic collembolan (cf.
In contrast, predators (such as centipedes and spiders) appear to control bacterial and fungal feeding animals (mainly collembolans and oribatid mites).
Structure of the Collembolan community (Hexapoda: Collembola) in bark mosses along an altitudinal gradient of a subhumid forest in Mexico.
the collembolan Tomocerus minor and the isopod Philoscia muscorum.
In the present paper, collembolan fauna is based on extensive collection made during Aug-Sep 2008 at Sakti, Darbuk, Tso Gul Tso wet land, Pangong Tso Lake, Chusul, Nyoma, Nider, Chumathang, Diskit, Hunder and Gangltak areas of Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, as a part of the "Cold Desert Expedition" of the Zoological Survey of India.
In at least one other study, the species richness of the collembolan community in rehabilitated forested areas is positively correlated with plot age (Greenslade and Majer, 1993).
For example, Snider (1973) provided detailed information on the life history of the collembolan Folsomia candida (Willem), while Yeates (1969, 1970) provided similar information on free-living nematodes.
Diversity and distribution of Collembolan (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) of Brazil.
We monitored collembolan densities as an indicator of prey availability for S.
similis is the only phoretic collembolan known at this time using ants for a carrier (Moser & Blomquist 2011).
In a similar study with pine (Pinus contorta) seedlings, their ectomycorrhizal symbiont (Paxillus involutus), and a collembolan (Onychiurus armatus), Ek et al.
was the only collembolan species found in sand samples from 6 different beaches in Fernando de Noronha and there are no records of if from elsewhere.