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Use of Quantitative Morphological Analysis Combined with a Large Sample Size for Estimating Morphological Variability in a Case Study of Armoured Mite Carabodes subarcticus Trägårdh, 1902 (Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae) / Carabodes Subarcticus Trägårdh, 1902 (Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae) Bruòçrèu Taksonomijâ Plaðâk Pielietoto Pazîmju Morfoloìijas Mainîbas Kvantitatîva Un Kvalitatîva Analîze Relatîvi Lielâ Paraugkopâ Cover

Use of Quantitative Morphological Analysis Combined with a Large Sample Size for Estimating Morphological Variability in a Case Study of Armoured Mite Carabodes subarcticus Trägårdh, 1902 (Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae) / Carabodes Subarcticus Trägårdh, 1902 (Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae) Bruòçrèu Taksonomijâ Plaðâk Pielietoto Pazîmju Morfoloìijas Mainîbas Kvantitatîva Un Kvalitatîva Analîze Relatîvi Lielâ Paraugkopâ

Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.
Volume 69 (2015): Issue 6 (December 2015)
By: Uìis Kagainis  
Open Access
|Feb 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prolas-2015-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2255-890X | Journal ISSN: 1407-009X
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Language: English
Page range: 314 - 325
Submitted on: Jan 6, 2015
Published on: Feb 19, 2016
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Keywords:
morphological variability,
size range,
qualitative and quantitative analysis,
sample size,
Carabodes subarcticus
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General interest,
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General mathematics

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