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Impact of a small artificial water source on the diversity of odonates (Insecta : Odonata) in an urban landscape [PDF]

Arthropods, 2021
Rapid urbanisation is mainly responsible for the degradation and fragmentation of natural ecosystems in urban areas. Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) constitute an important part of urban biodiversity.
Pawan U. Gajbe
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Field estimates of reproductive success in a model insect: behavioural surrogates are poor predictors of fitness [PDF]

, 2011
Understanding, and therefore measuring, factors that determine fitness is a central problem in evolutionary biology. We studied a natural population of Coenagrion puella (Odonata: Zygoptera) over two entire breeding seasons, with over a thousand ...
Albon, Andrés, Anholt, Arnqvist, Banks, Banks, Banks, Banks, Bots, Buskirk, Clutton-Brock, Clutton-Brock, Coltman, Corbet, Cordero, Cordero, Cordero-Rivera, Córdoba-Aguilar, Fincke, Fincke, Fincke, Forbes, Forbes, Gaillard, Grafen, Hamel, Harvey, Hassall, Jakob, Kalinowski, Koenig, Kraaijveld-Smit, Kruuk, Lappin, Lowe, Lowe, Marshall, O’Brien, R Development Core Team, Rodríguez-Muñoz, Sherratt, Simmons, Sokolovska, Stein, Stoks, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Warner, Watts   +49 more
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Can damselfly larvae serve as bioindicator species for assessing contamination of organophosphate esters in aquatic environments?

Ecological Indicators
Damselfly larvae have been widely used to evaluate the environmental quality of freshwater ecosystems. However, there have been limited studies on the pollution characteristics of organophosphate esters (OPEs) in damselfly larvae. This study investigated
Wanru Zhang, Mei Wang, Ang Zhao, Yangyang Liu, Yuting Ren, Huijie Dang, Jianzhong Xu, Chao Wei, Yuxia Yang, Haoyu Liu   +9 more
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Odonate species occupancy frequency distribution and abundance–occupancy relationship patterns in temporal and permanent water bodies in a subtropical area

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
This paper investigates species richness and species occupancy frequency distributions (SOFD) as well as patterns of abundance–occupancy relationship (SAOR) in Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) in a subtropical area.
Samuel Renner, Marina Schmidt Dalzochio, Eduardo Périco, Göran Sahlén, Jukka Suhonen   +4 more
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Complete mitochondrial genomes of two damselfly species in coenagrionidae and phylogenetic implications

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021
Agriocnemis femina (Brauer, 1868) and Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842) are two damselflies inhabiting paddy lands. As an intermediate predator, they play an important role in controlling certain crop pest and mosquitoes.
Bin Jiang, Jia Li, Yongmei Zhang, Yang Sun, Shulin He, Guozhi Yu, Guosheng Lv, Dirk J. Mikolajewski   +7 more
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The Importance of Different Biomes (Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Caatinga) in the Regional Structuring of Neotropical Dragonfly Assemblages

Diversity
Understanding how assemblages are structured is important for ecology, especially in tropical regions that exhibit high biodiversity and are currently experiencing high rates of loss and modification of natural environments caused by anthropogenic ...
Karolina Teixeira, Acácio de Sá Santos, Diogo Silva Vilela, Cíntia Ribeiro, Marciel Elio Rodrigues   +4 more
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Evolution determines how global warming and pesticide exposure will shape predator‐prey interactions with vector mosquitoes [PDF]

, 2016
How evolution may mitigate the effects of global warming and pesticide exposure on predator–prey interactions is directly relevant for vector control.
de Beeck, Lin Op, Dinh, Khuong Van, Janssens, Lizanne, Stoks, Robby, Tran, Tam H.   +4 more
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Regional variations in occupancy frequency distribution patterns between odonate assemblages in Fennoscandia

Ecosphere, 2018
Odonate (damselfly and dragonfly) species richness and species occupancy frequency distributions (SOFDs) were analyzed in relation to geographical location in standing waters (lakes and ponds) in Fennoscandia, from southern Sweden to central Finland.
Esa Korkeamäki, Merja Elo, Göran Sahlén, Jukka Salmela, Jukka Suhonen   +4 more
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Sex- and morph-specific predation risk: Colour or behaviour dependency?

European Journal of Entomology, 2004
The coexistence of discrete morphs within a species, with one morph more conspicuous than the other(s) is often thought to result from both sexual selection and predation.
Hans VAN GOSSUM, Tim ADRIAENS, Henri DUMONT, Robby STOKS   +3 more
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Thermal response of two sexually dimorphic Calopteryx (Odonata) over an ambient temperature range

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Organisms may internally or behaviorally regulate their body temperatures or conform to the ambient air temperatures. Previous evidence is mixed on whether wing pigmentation influences thermoregulation in various odonates.
Gretchen D. Schreiner, Lucie A. Duffy, Jonathan M. Brown   +2 more
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