Acarine colonisation of Antarctica and the islands of the Southern Ocean
The role of zoohoria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9224520 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P J A Pugh (British Antarctic Survey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 185 |
| Pages | 113-122 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247400014431 |
| OpenAlex | W2072370199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 44 |
A quarter of the terrestrial Acari recorded from Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands are parasitic haematophages or non-feeding phoretics associated with other larger and more mobile animals, especially sea birds and pterygote insects. Although flying sea birds are effective vectors of zoohoric mites into the region, penguins are not and merely serve as reservoir hosts. Similarly, most of the mites associated with insects were accidentally introduced by man as free-living adults that subsequently utilised a range of alien and indigenous insects as local dispersal mechanisms
Acari · Alien · Biological dispersal · Biology · Colonisation · Colonization · Geography · Indigenous · Range (aeronautics) · Sea lion · Ecology · Geology · Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior · Oceanography · Study of Mite Species · Vector-borne infectious diseases
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2010 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |