COMMUNITIES OF ARBOREAL ORIBATID MITES (ACARIFORMES: ORIBATIDA) OF ASPEN-BIRCH FORESTS OF WEST SIBERIA. COMMUNICATION 2. SEASONAL DYNAMICS PATTERNS

About authors:

Andrei V. Tolstikov,

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia; e-mail: a.v.tolstikov@utmn.ru

Е.А. Bragin, V.I. Shpilman Research and Analytical Center of Rational Land-Use, Tyumen, 625003 Russia
Igor V. Kuzmin,

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

A.L. Nekrasov, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 625003 Russia;

Acknowledgments:

The authors are thankful to Drs. Adelaida D. Petrova-Nikitina (Department of Entomology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow) for many helpful suggestions and Roy A. Norton (SUNY, Syracuse, New York) for drawing their interest to arboreal oribatid mites. Many thanks should be extended to the Tyumen State University Department of Zoology students who actively par-ticipated in the project: Svetlana Petunkina and Dina Khrabrova.

Annotation:

Seasonal dynamics of arboreal oribatid mites inhabiting bark, twigs and leaves of three species of trees (pine, birch and linden) was studied in West Siberia. Seasonal patterns of oribatid mite commu-nities on trees are as follows: the high species diversity of mites in summer, the population densi-ty increase early in sping and summer and the following decrease early in autumn.

Bibliography:

Aoki J. 1971. Soil mites (Oribatids) climbing trees. In: Proceedings of the 3^rd International Congress of Acarology (Prague), pp.59-65.

Block W. 1990. Cold tolerance of insects and other arthropods. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. В., 326: 613-633.

Bragin E.A., Tolstikov A.V. Communities of arboreal oribatid mites (Acariformes, Oribatida) of aspen-birch forests of West Siberia. Communication 1. Species diversity and abundance. A carina, 10:175-187.

Chant D. A. 1963. Some mortality factors and the dynam-ics of orchard mites. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Can., 32: 33-40.

Chistyakov M.P. 1971. [Seasonal dynamics of abun-dance of oribatid mites on used turf-fields of Gork-ovskaya Province]. Ecologiya, 6: 78-83. [In Rus-sian]

Eitminavicute I.S. 1966. [Oribatids of the shores of boggy lakes. 1. Lower bog]. In: Trudy Akademii Nauk Litovskoy SSR, 1 (39): 53-62. [In Russian] Goloso va L., Karppinen E., Krivolutsky D. List of oribatid mites (Acarina, Oribatei) of northern palaearctic region. II. Siberia and Far East. Acta Entomol. Fenilica, 43: 1-14.

Grishina L.G., Stebaeva S.K., Lapshina E.I., Vagina T.A., Pan'ko V.A., Sen'kova L.A. 1991. [Microar-thropods of Soil, Vegetation in the Conditions of Fluctuated Precipitation (Karasuk Valley Taken as an Example)]. Publisher: Nauka, Novosibirsk. 166 pp. [In Russian]

Knor O.I. 1998. [Fauna of oribatid mites (Sarcopti-formes, Oribatei) of pine forests of the south West Siberia]. In: Bespozvonochnyezhivotnye Yuzhno-go Zauralia i prilezhshchikh territory. Materialy Vserossiyskoy Konferentsii, Kurgan, pp. 187-192. [In Russian]

Krivolutsky D.A. 1980. [Influence of temperature re-gime and soil frosting on complexes of oribatid mites]. In: Adaptatsii zhivotnykh к zimnim uslovi-yam. Publisher: Nauka, Moscow, pp. 38-44 [In Russian]

[Oribatid mites: morphology, development, phylogeny, ecology, methods of research, characteristics of the model species Nothrus palustris C.L. Koch, 1839]. D.A. Krivolutsky (Ed.). Publisher: Nauka, Mos-cow. 224 pp. [In Russian]

Lyashchev A. A. 1989. [Seasonal dynamics of abundance of oribatid mites of the island Sakhalin]. In: Pochvennye bespozvonochnye yuga Dalnego Vos-toka. Sbornik nauchnykh rabot. Publisher: DVO AN SSSR, Khabarovsk, pp. 69-80 [In Russian]

Murphy P.W., Balla A.N. 1971. The bionomics of Hu-merobates rostrolamellatus Grandjean (Cryptostig-mata — Ceratozetidae) on fruit trees. In: Proc. 3^rd. Int. Congress Acarology (Prague), pp. 97-104.

Overmeer W.P.J. 1985. Diapause, Spider Mites. Their Biology, Natural Enemies and Control, 1 A. In: W. Helle and M.W. Sabelis (Eds.). Publisher: Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 95-102.

Piven V.B. 1972. [Peculiarities of seasonal fluctuations of abundance of microarthropods (Oribatei and Collembola) on wheat fields of the forest-steppe of West Siberia]. In: Zoologicheskiyeproblemy Sibiri. Publisher: Nauka, Novosibirsk, pp. 161-162. [In Russian]

Ryabimn N. A., Pan'kov A.N. 2002. [Catalog of oribatid mites of the Far East. Part II. Continental part of the Far East]. Publisher: DVO-RAN, Vladivostok-Khabarovsk. 92 p. [In Russian]

Sitnikova L.G. 1961. [Vertical distribution and fluctua-tions of abundance of oribatid mites in sod-podzol soils in the vicinities of Leningrad, Communication I. Meadow associations]. In: Parazitologicheskiy sbornik, 20. Publisher: Nauka, St. Petersburg, pp. 283-298. [In Russian]

Sitnikova L.G. 1963. [The vertical distribution and fluc-tuations of abundance of oribatid mites in sod-podzol soils in the vicinities of Leningrad. Commu-nication II. Forest associations]. In: Parazitolog-icheskiy sbornik, 21. Publisher: Nauka, St. Peters-burg, pp. 83-95. [In Russian]

Spider Mites. Their Biology, Natural Enemies and Con-trol, 1A. 1985. W. Helle and M.W. Sabelis (Eds.). Publisher: Elsevier, Amsterdam. 403 pp.

Tarba Z.M. 1977. [Adaptation of soil oribatid mites to temperature and other environmental factors]. In: Adaptatsii pochvennykh zhivotnykh к usloviyam sredy. Sbornik nauchnykh rabot. Publisher: Nauka, Moscow, pp. 145-150. [In Russian]

Tolstikov A.V. 1997. [Hydrophilous mites of the Order Acariformes A. Zachv. (taxonomic diversity and community structure)]. Abstract of the Candidate of Biological Sciences thesis. Moscow. 24 pp. [In Russian]

Wunderle I. 1992. Die Oribatiden-Gemeinschaften (Acari) der verschiedenen Habitate eines Buchen-waldes. Carolinea, 50: 79-144.

Yaroshenko N.N. 1975. [Oribatid mites (Acariformes, Oribatei) of the original steppe ofPriazovye], Vest-nik Zoologii, 4: 63-67. [In Russian]