Recovery of Mites from Peat and Mineral Soils Using a New Flotation Method
- 31 May 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 36 (2) , 323-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2915
Abstract
Numbers are given of various Acarina extracted from peat and mineral soils, using a flotation method developed by Hale (1964) for Collembola. Comparing the Hale flotation method with the high gradient extractor (Macfadyen 1961) it is estimated that for the recovery of Acarina the latter is twice (or 200%) as efficient with the peat soil used, and 3 1/4 times (325%) as efficient with the mineral soil used in the experiments. These differences were significant as P<0.01 for peat, and at P< 0.001 for mineral soil.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- A NEW APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING INSECTS AND OTHER ARTHROPODS FROM THE SOILAnnals of Applied Biology, 1936