This review discusses the connection between quantitative changes of environmental factors
and oribatid communities. With the overview of available studies, it can be clearly explored how various
characteristics of Oribatid communities are modified due to changes in moisture, temperature, heavy
metal concentration, organic matter content and level of disturbance. The most important question
concerning the application of Oribatids as indicators is to clarify what kind of information content does
natural Oribatid coenological patterns possess from the aspect of bioindication. Most of the variables
listed above can be directly measured, since rapid methods are available to quantify parameters of the
soil. Responses of Oribatids are worth to study in a more complex approach. Even now we have an
expansive knowledge on how communities change due to modifications of different factors. These pieces
of information necessitate the elaboration of such methods which render Oribatid communities suitable
for the task to prognosticate what extent the given site can be considered near-natural or degraded, based
on the Oribatid composition of a single sample taken from the given area. Answering this problem needs
extensive and coordinated work
