
By Reinhart Schuster
Through the Inaugural assembly of the eu organization of Acarol ogists (EURAAC), held in Amsterdam in 1987, it was once determined that the preserving of a Symposium at general durations could be an immense target. With this in view, it used to be agreed that Professor Reinhart Schuster, the senior editor, be invited to simply accept the Presidency of the organization and, bobbing up from that workplace, to prepare the 1st Symposium in Austria in 1988. there has been robust aid for a primary subject involved in a selected point of acarology. From those discussions there emerged the notion that emphasis be put on facets of replica, improvement and life-history thoughts of the Acari. those have been subject matters within the leading edge of the self-discipline with fascinating advancements of curiosity not just to acarologists yet to a much broader viewers a result of mild they solid on primary strategies in body structure, ecology and evolutionary biology. the thing then used to be to ask a small variety of key staff to provide prolonged papers concerning the most topic. there have been seven of those all of which seem within the publication. the remainder fifty one contributions have been provided papers a few which are compatible in the framework of the Symposium subject.