@ARTICLE{Skubała_Piotr_Oribatid_2003,
 author={Skubała, Piotr},
 volume={vol. 29},
 number={No 2},
 pages={67-75},
 journal={Archives of Environmental Protection},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2003},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences},
 abstract={The recapitulation of the investigations on oribatid mite fauna carried out at various kinds of abandoned galena-calamine wastelands in the south of Poland is presented. Soil samples were collected at nine sites in three regions of zinc-lead mining. In total, 24267 oribatid individuals belonging to 160 species were analyzed. The sites differing in the period of ceasing exploitation, species composition of plants and their stage of succession were chosen. The abundance and species richness of oribatid mites were generally higher on afforested sites and sites of older origin. The abundance of oribatids noted on wastelands was generally lower than in most natural or semi-natural biotopes. Surprisingly, the species richness on afforested wastelands was higher than in many natural forest biotopes. With regard to species similarity, the oribatid communities have been grouped due to localities instead of been organized due to the type of wastelands or vegetation. Correspondence analysis (CA) indicated that certain species of Oribatida preferentially occurred in a certain type of wastelands. Species characteristic of afforested new and old or unforested wastelands were distinguished. The biodiversity of oribatid fauna on galena-calamine wastelands was high with many new species for the Polish fauna ( 15). Some of them were recorded only from a few localities in the world.},
 type={Article},
 title={Oribatid Fauna (Acari: Oribatida) of Abandoned Galena-calamine Wastelands},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/123733/PDF-MASTER/10_AE_VOL_29_2003_Skubala_Oribatid.pdf},
 keywords={Oribatida, galena-calamine wastelands, species composition, biodiversity},
}