Publication at Faculty of Science |
2001
Abstract
Microbial communities commonly shift between fungal adn bacterial dominance, bat litle is known of how the mites associated with such communities respond to these changes. Two mite species, Trichoribates trimaculatus (Oribatida) and Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Acaridida), which are respectively algophagous and mycophagous, wer subjected to two moisture regimes in laboratory cultures using algal-covered bark as substrate and initial food source.