▪ Abstract Folsomia candida Willem 1902, a member of the order Collembola (colloquially
called springtails), is a common and widespread arthropod that occurs in soils throughout …

The production of crops under protected conditions is increasing worldwide. Owing to
growing consumer demands for healthy and green produce, and intensifying pesticide …

Presenting a multidisciplinary perspective in a concise format, Principles of Ecotoxicology,
Third Edition discusses the fundamental chemical and ecological nature of pollution …

Biological control provides an environmentally safe, cost-effective and energyefficient
means of pest control, either alone or as a component of integrated pest management. The …

Ecological theory suggests that density‐dependent regulation of organism abundance will
vary from exogenous to endogenous factors depending on trophic structure. Changes in …

Quantitative Ecotoxicology, Second Edition explores models and methods of quantitative
ecotoxicology at progressively higher biological scales using worked examples and …

Growth-inhibition tests for 14 pesticide adjuvants which are widely used to manufacture
various pesticidal formulations in China, were performed on the green algae Scenedesmus …

Egg production by the cereal spider Erigone atra was used as a fitness parameter for
evaluating the food quality of two species of Collembola: Folsomia fimetaria and Isotoma …

Mites, and especially soil-inhabiting ones, have been less studied than the other
invertebrates used in bio-assays for the assessment of soil quality and the hazards of …

In order to evaluate the power of laboratory toxicity tests to predict the situation in the field,
soil microarthropods were studied at the population and community levels in a copper …