Ecology and Evolution of the Acari formatIsbn:Softcover 9789048152001 hrend die meisten Lehrbiicher in formatIsbn:Softcover 9783642430046 hrend die meisten Lehrbiicher in umfang­ reicher Darstellung vielfach die mathematische Seite in den Vorder­ grund stellen It seemed worthwhile to begin these introductory remarks with a brief descrip tion of some events that preceeded the conference The growing interest from evolutionary and molecular biologists and from population and community ecologists in mites and ticks has a strong impetus on the field of Acarology For a long time the development of Acarology as a field of biological science has been dominated by systematists and applied scientists