Dear All,
We inform you that between Monday, February 26 and Friday, March 1, 2024, the course SOIL MITES: BIOLOGY AND ROLE IN THE SOIL, TAXONOMY AND IDENTIFICATION will be taught at the Faculty of Agronomy, Garzón 780, Montevideo, Uruguay. It will be led by Dr. Pablo A. Martínez (National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina).
The course syllabus includes: Edaphic fauna. Soil arthropods, main groups; mites and springtails. Role of mites in soil and plant health. Soil sampling and related environments. Obtaining, conservation, fixation, rinsing, and mounting of specimens. Mites. Phylogenetic relationships and classification. Main groups in the soil: Mesostigmata, Prostigmata, Oribatida and Astigmata. Morphology. Diagnostic structures of each group. Determination of orders and suborders using keys.
Registrations: Bedelías of the Faculties of Agronomy and Sciences, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
Queries: gjorge@fagro.edu.uy
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