Papers in this group
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Over the last two decades, macroecology – the analysis of large-scale, multi-species ecological patterns and processes – has established itself as a major line of biological research. Analyses of statistical links between environmental variables and…
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Florabank1 is a database that contains distributional data on the wild flora (indigenous species, archeophytes and naturalised aliens) of Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. It holds about 3 million records of vascular plants, dating from 1800…
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Background The arthropod class Diplopoda is a mega-diverse group comprising >12,000 described millipede species. The history of taxonomic research within the group is tumultuous and, consequently, has yielded a questionable higher-level…
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The red spider mite (Tetranchus cinnabarinus Boisduval) is one of the main pests in the world and the risk of invasion posed by this mite is becoming more and more serious with regard to increasing areas of planting cassava in China. It is urgent to…
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This study was conducted to investigate the moth fauna of the Bigeum-do Island in 2011. A total of 160 species of 15 families was identified. Noctuidae with 60 species was dominant in the area followed by Geometridae (37 species) and Crambidae (16…
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The study is performed in the Nakdong Estuary located in the city of Busan. The study focuses on understanding the visitation aspect of plover (Pluvialis spp.) and their habitat preference through long-term monitoring in the Nakdong estuary where…
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Survey results performed in June and September 2011 of Bigeum and Docho islands showed 3,828 individuals in 84 species of birds to understand bird diversity of the two islands through joint ecological surveys by Korean Biodiversity Consortium.…
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Joint study with the Union of Biodiversity Organizations on the marine invertebrates of Bigeumdo (Is.), Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do was conducted over 3 sessions between March and September of 2011. Compared to the 2nd National Natural Environment…
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: The study was performed for birds living around Junam Reservoir, a representing place for migrant birds in Korea for 10 times from February to December (except November) in 2011. The result states that a total of 11,742 individuals, 102 species,…
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The flora of Aphaedo (Is.), Bigeumdo (Is.), Dochodo (Is.) of Shinan-gun, Jeollanam-do was studied over 2 sessions, with the 1st session conducted between May and June of 2011 and the 2nd session conducted between August and September of 2011. A…
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As a result of the long-term monitoring of the insect fauna of Yeongsil in Hallasan Mountain National Park, Jeju Island, a total of 146 species belonging to 52 families in 10 orders were identified and enumerated, with the exception of Lepidoptera.…
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The Baetic ranges in the Iberian Peninsula are extremely rich and outstanding in biological terms. Based on the existing literature, herbarium sheets and our own field research, we provide a checklist of the endemic flora growing in the Baetic…
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Herbarium specimens are a vital resource in botanical taxonomy. Many herbaria are undertaking large-scale digitization projects to improve access and to preserve delicate specimens, and in doing so are creating large sets of images. Leaf characters…
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Aim: The tropical Andes are a world biodiversity hotspot. With diverse biomes and dramatic, geologically recent mountain uplift, they offer a system to study the relative contributions of geological and biome history to species richness. There are…
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Trichomonas vaginalis can be infected with double stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses known as T. vaginalis virus (TVV). This viral infection may have important implications for trichomonal virulence and disease pathogenesis. In this study we identified…
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La sortie de l'impasse où nous mettent l'accumulation des connaissances et la fragmentation des ressources correspondantes passe par le développement et l'unification des théories et des méthodes et par l'intégration des ressources documentaires,…
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Climate change predictions for the Great Plains region of North America include increased temperatures and changes to annual precipitation patterns. We used ecological niche modeling (Maxent) to assess how three climate change scenarios published by…
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mize the pressure gradient across the mesophyll that would otherwise occur as a result of increasing gs. The resistance to water movement through the mesophyll represented 80-‐90% of leaf resistance in six genotypes of Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench).…
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The Mydidae genera Namibimydas Hesse, 1972 and Nothomydas Hesse, 1969 are reviewed. Both ge- nera were known from two species each occurring in southern Namibia and western South Africa and are here redescribed. Four new species, all from Namibia,…