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Enhancing biodiversity through sowing and reduced management of grasslands on dikes and floodplains
Basic and Applied EcologyGrassland on dikes and in floodplains offers great potential to enhance biodiversity, particularly in urban areas. This study investigates the effects of changing the management from intensive mowing to reduced management on community composition ...
Andrea R. Schneider +5 more
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Ethology, Volume 132, Issue 8, Page 533-543, August 2026.Sexual dimorphism and stress‐induced stridulatory responses in Jaguajir rochae (Borelli, 1910). Females exhibited greater absolute pectinal size and higher sound pressure levels, whereas males showed higher pectinal allometric ratios relative to body size, lower sound frequencies, and shorter delta times.
Welton Dionisio‐da‐Silva +4 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 362-370, July 2026.Abstract Catfishes of the subfamily Trichomycterinae comprise the most diverse fish group with species adapted to live in Neotropical caves, but past evolutionary scenarios that have driven the origin of these troglobitic species remain unknown. We herein investigate the phylogenetic position of the cave‐restricted Trichomycterus rubbioli, endemic to ...
Wilson J. E. M. Costa +6 more
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Ecosystem recovery in restored saltmarshes detected through invertebrate communities
Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 5, July 2026.Abstract Introduction Saltmarsh ecosystems support rich biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services. Invertebrate communities underpin essential processes such as nutrient cycling and decomposition. However, saltmarshes have been widely degraded by land use change.
Agustina Quadri‐Adrogue +3 more
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Beta diversity analyses clarify mechanisms structuring ecological communities, but their multidimensional facets remain poorly explored in arthropods. Here, we quantified taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta diversity in scorpions, partitioned these facets into species replacement and richness differences, and evaluated the ...
Stênio Ítalo Araújo Foerster +1 more
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Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 2, May 2026.Abstract Surveys of caves of the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, revealed a remarkable assemblage of exceptionally well‐preserved mummified arthropods, comprising Araneae, Blattodea, Coleoptera and Chilopoda, all of which exhibit high levels of troglomorphism, lacking eyes and showing a number of other adaptations.
Juanita Rodriguez +2 more
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The world’s deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus)
International Journal of Speleology, 2012 Subsurface biota extends over a wide variety of habitats that can be spatially interconnected. The largest communities of this subsurface biota inhabit cavities and are well known mainly in caves where biologists are able to have access.
Reboleira Ana Sofia P.S., Sendra Alberto
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Systematic Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, January‐March 2026.The newly systematic rearrangement of Gyriosomus recognizes 9 clades, validates 21 taxonomical species and suggests 12 synonyms and 12 species candidates. Three taxonomical species were not evaluated. Polymorphisms, convergences and crypsis have been detected, and therefore morphology‐based taxonomy should be approached with caution. Ecological drivers
Simón Anguita‐Salinas +7 more
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Do Island Spiders Descend From Trees? – A Tale of Island Colonisation and Niche Expansion
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim Oceanic islands are known for being home to drastically different communities compared to the mainland, as their isolation and limited area significantly favour clades able to travel long distances over water. On spiders, this happens mainly, although not exclusively, through ballooning whose propensity is unevenly distributed across ...
R. Costa +4 more
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Species traits modulate ecological release in island red devil spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae)
Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 6, Page 941-956, November 2025.We studied the species ability to undergo an ecological release process in the red devil spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) when colonising species‐depauperate environments, focusing on different aspects of their niche. We have found that the ability to expand their niche is highly dependent on the species trophic strategy, with specialist species being ...
Adrià Bellvert +5 more
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