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Countdown to 2010: Can we assess Ireland’s insect species diversity and loss? [PDF]
, 2010 peer-reviewedThe insects are the most diverse organisms on this planet and play an essential role in ecosystem functioning, yet we know very little about them.
McCormack, Stephen +4 more
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Survival Remains High in Griffon Vultures 40 Years After Reintroduction
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.The reintroduction of the Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) in French Grands Causses in 1981 is largely regarded as a significant translocation success. 40 years of quality data from intensive monitoring allows us to investigate the survival rates in this long‐lived population on the long term, but also to reflect on the crucial role of adaptive management
Charlotte Lorand +7 more
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New species and new records of hybotid dance flies (Diptera: Hybotidae: Tachydromiinae) from Iranian mangrove habitats [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and SystematicsThe family Hybotidae (Insecta: Diptera, Empidoidea) is recorded for the first time from mangrove habitats in Iran (Hormozgan Province). Four species belonging to the subfamily Tachydromiinae have been found of which two species are recorded for the first
Igor V. Shamshev, Ebrahim Gilasian
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Jumping plant-lice of the Paurocephalinae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea): systematics and phylogeny [PDF]
, 2003 Much confusion exists with respect to the content and definition of the psyUid subfamily Paurocephalinae. Based on a cladistic analysis of 22 morphological characters (16 adult and 6 larval), the subfamily is redefined to comprise the following five ...
Burckhardt, Daniel, Mifsud, David
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Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed affects coprophagous beetles' dung use
Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed reduced the attractiveness of dung for a common dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis). Dietary supplementation with brown seaweed appeared to reduce the proportion of major males in the F1 generation.
Samantha Bennett +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2006 The intra- and interspecific variability in the West Palaearctic tibialis-group species of the subgenus Pandasyopthalmus (Diptera: Syrphidae: Paragus) was analysed.
Santos ROJO +3 more
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First record of the sawfly family Xyelidae (Hymenoptera) from Malta [PDF]
, 2016 Xyela cf. altenhoferi Blank, 2013 is recorded from Buskett (Malta). Its host is Pinus halepensis.
Liston, Andrew D., Mifsud, David
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Evaluating the empirical basis for threat attribution in the IUCN Red List
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Understanding the impacts of different threats on species is key to successful conservation interventions and policies. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assesses threats to species, and the organization's Red List of Threatened Species is a key conservation tool.
Ena Humphries +5 more
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2017 Aim. The aim is to analyze the main points of the formation of the biota of the Caucasus.Results. Discussed points: the boundaries of the Tethys desert-steppe belt of the Palaearctic and the place of the Caucasus in it, as well as the role of marine ...
G. M. Abdurakhmanov +9 more
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Podagrion splendens (Spinola, 1811) (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) : a new record of Torymidae from Malta [PDF]
, 2016 The genus Podagrion was previously unrecorded from Malta. Podagrion wasps are associated with the oothecae of various mantids in which they are parasitoids.
Cassar, Thomas
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