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Author Walter, David Evans, 1950-

Title Mites : ecology, evolution, and behaviour / David Evans Walter and Heather Coreen Proctor
Published Sydney : UNSW ; New York : CABI Pub., 1999

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Description [viii], 322 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. What good are mites? -- 2. The origin of mites: fossil history and relationships -- 3. Systematic and morphological survey -- 4. Life cycles, development and size -- 5. Sex and celibacy -- 6. Mites in detritus and soil systems -- 7. Acari underwater, or, Why did mites take the plunge? -- 8. Mites on plants -- 9. Animals as habitats -- 10. Mites and biological diversity -- 11. Mites as models -- Appendix -- References
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-313) and index
Subject Plant mites -- Ecology.
Plant mites -- Behavior -- Evolution.
Water mites -- Ecology.
Water mites -- Behavior -- Evolution.
Mites.
Mites -- Evolution.
Mites -- Ecology.
Mites -- Behavior.
Author Proctor, Heather Coreen, 1964-
LC no. 00273711
ISBN 0851993753 CABI
0868405299 UNSW Press