Assessing soil quality of Italian Western Alps protected areas by QBS-ar: impact of management and habitat type on soil microarthropods

T Fusco, L Fortini, F Casale, C Jacomini… - Environmental Monitoring …, 2023 - Springer
Soil fauna has a crucial importance for the functioning of ecosystems and their conservation.
Soil biota has a role in soil formation and distribution of organic matter, and groups like …

[HTML][HTML] Mites (Oribatida and Mesostigmata) and vegetation as complementary bioindicators in peatlands

A Seniczak, S Seniczak, JC Iturrondobeitia… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vegetation is widely used in the assessment of the quality of peatlands, while the
invertebrate fauna of peatlands is relatively poorly studied. We compared the bioindicator …

Community structure of epilithic moss mites and their response to environmental factors in different grades of rocky desertification habitats

W Liu, X Yin, T Gong, Y Liu, H Chen - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This research has been undertaken to reveal the changes in the community structure of
epilithic moss mites and the response of these mites to environmental factors under different …

Fast soil recovery after a fire: case study in Maritime Alps (Piedmont, Italy) using microarthropods and QBS-ar index

T Fusco, L Fortini, F Casale, C Jacomini… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Soil is a very fragile ecosystem, often subject to many threats. Wildfires can affect edaphic
communities depending on the intensity and seasonality of the fire. Different groups of soil …

[PDF][PDF] First record of Oribatula variaporosa (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatulidae) from Ukraine

HH Hushtan, KV Hushtan - 2024 - researchgate.net
First record of Oribatula variaporosa (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatulidae) from Ukraine. Oribatula
variaporosa Iordansky, 1991 is recorded for the first time in Ukraine. A supplementary …