Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of apterous ametabolous insects, containing the lowest or most generalized types of the true insects.
- A suborder of the order Thysanura: restricted to the springtails proper, the Poduridæ and Sminthuridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Hexapoda — thespringtails .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun minute wingless arthropods: springtails
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Examples
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We must, indeed, in my opinion, separate them entirely from one another; and I would venture to propose for the group comprised in the old genus Podura, the term Collembola, as indicating the existence of a projection, or mammilla, enabling the creature to attach or glue itself to the body on which it stands. "
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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For small mobile animals (e.g., wingless soil invertebrates such as Collembola and mites), habitat selection on a very small spatial scale (microhabitat selection) enables individuals to find spatial refuges with temperature and moisture regimes adequate for survival [80].
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Soil invertebrates such as Collembola [101] sometimes exhibit large interannual fluctuations in population density.
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- Snow fleas are not really fleas, but belong to a group of primitive organisms called springtails (Collembola).
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Ice-crust formation during the winter may increase winter mortality by 50% in Collembola [43].
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Species with rapid life cycles (aphids and Collembola) responded demographically more quickly than species (e.g., mites) with slow life cycles [40].
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Springtails (Collembola) of Eurasian polar deserts.
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Spatial and temporal variation in patch occupancy and population density in a model system of an arctic Collembola species assemblage.
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The abundance of Collembola declined at barren sites where higher temperatures also caused drought and mortality due to desiccation, whereas the abundance of Collembola increased at moister sites.
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Mites are more resistant than Collembola to summer desiccation [41] and to anoxic conditions in winter due to ice-crust formation following episodes of mild weather [42].
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