Titlebook: Arthropods of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems; George P. Stamou Book 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 Mittelmeer.adaptation.arthr

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Life Cycle Tactics and Development,istories (i.e. ancestrally dictated life history patterns) can be investigated in Mediterranean regions. Consideration of life cycle patterns allows for elaboration of the concept of life cycles complying with the seasonality of the Mediterranean climate. The seasonally varying Mediterranean environ

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Water Balance in Mediterranean Arthropods,te occurs with low atmospheric humidity (Block 1996). Consequently, water conditions induce moisture uptake as well as watersaving adaptations such as reduced cuticular transpiration (Cloudsley-Thompson and Constantinou 1983).

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Phenological Patterns,and physiological adaptations can be formulated from census data and phenograms. This approach has been deliberately adopted for most Mediterranean arthropods, so explanations of the synchronisation of their development with seasonally varying climatic variables can be inferred.

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Synthesis,agement practices involving overgrazing of the lands coupled with frequent fires and wood removal. It is evident, however, that seasonal effects are most important and overwhelm effects based either on interannual fluctuations or on ordinary human impacts.