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General Introduction

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Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

Abstract

The soil arthropods illustrated in this atlas represent a large number of soil-inhabiting arthropods of the classes: Crustacea, Arachnida, Myriapoda and Insecta. Their biotope is the soil, formed from the Earth’s outer rock layer by weathering and the action of organisms. According to the degree of weathering and activity of the organisms, differently structured horizons are formed which are visible in the soil profile. The effective physical, chemical, climatic and biological factors are, at the same time, the abiotic and biotic, ecological factors which influence the soil arthropods. Certain forms of life have developed among the soil arthropods as adaptations to these ecological factors and to life in the soil, these being euedaphic, epedaphic and hemiedaphic life forms. Thus, the soil arthropods with their specific life forms take part in the biocenosis of the entire soil organisms, known as the edaphon.

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  1. Department of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Saarstraße 21, D-6500, Mainz, Germany

    Dr. Gerhard Eisenbeis

  2. Siebengebirgsstraße 221, D-5300, Bonn 3, Germany

    Dr. Wilfried Wichard

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Eisenbeis, G., Wichard, W. (1987). General Introduction. In: Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72634-7_1

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