#dispersal — Public Fediverse posts

#Mites of the #Histiostomatidae live in #darkness in their #ephemeral #microhabitats. The distinctive deutonymphs are the #dispersal stage, being transported by insects. #Adults, however, live freely and #communicate via complex #olfactorysignals. An important #glandularcomplex is located on the dorsal body side. I participated in a study about the #geranial-rich glandular #secretions (2012).

© #StefanFWirth 24 Dec. 2025

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https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2012.662247

#SEM #pics

©S.F. Wirth, Histiostoma sp.

🆕Review: In the accompanying blog post, Jessica Purcell introduces us to this latest article by Järvinen et al. published in Myrmecological News.
#hybridisation #palaeoclimate #dispersal #geographic #isolation

https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/07/22/red-wood-ants-formica-rufa-groupas-a-model-for-comparative-studies-of-hybridization-and-speciation/

🆕 Original Article: Isolated hybrid wood-ant population Formica aquilonia x F. lugubris in subarctic Finland
Järvinen, A., Seifert, B., Satokangas, I., Savolainen, R. & Vepsäläinen, K.
#hybridisation #palaeoclimate #dispersal #geographic #isolation

https://myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1655&Itemid=444

Sea Level Rise Drowned A Vast Habitable Area Of North-Western Australia Driving Long-Term Cultural Change
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108418 <-- shared paper
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[By modelling these geographic features, the team estimates that the region could have supported a population of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing #climatechange #Pleistocene #Sahu #human #occupation #dispersal #archaeology #rockart #indigeneous #aborgines #firstnation #ancientpeoples #paleogeography #drownedlandscapes #Continentalshelf #Sealevelchange #bathymetry #topobathy #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #NewGuinea #PapuaNewGuinea #kimberley #arnhemland #NorthernAustralia #WesternAustralia #marine #ocean #innundation #model #modeling #archipelago
#australia #Wallacea #habitation #settlement #civilisation #maritime #economics #ancienthistory #sediment #sampling #geology #holocene

With these new methods, we can estimate the wing area of thousands of bird specimens that already have wingspan information in research collections, including rare and extinct species, benefiting studies of #birdflight, #movementecology, and #dispersal.