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Springtail phylogeography highlights biosecurity risks of repeated invasions and intraregional transfers among remote islands

Evolutionary Applications, 2020
Human‐mediated transport of species outside their natural range is a rapidly growing threat to biodiversity, particularly for island ecosystems that have evolved in isolation.
Helena P. Baird, Katherine L. Moon, Charlene Janion‐Scheepers, Steven L. Chown   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

New record of Friesea afurcata Tullberg, 1869 (Collembola, Neanuridae) in Golestan national Park (Hyrcanian forests), Iran [PDF]

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2018
The family Neanuridae belonging to order Poduromorpha, class Collembola includes terrestrial animals which play vital roles in decomposition and nutrient cycle in soil.
Susan Khanahamdi, Masoumeh Shayanmehr, Mohammad Ali Bahmanyar   +2 more
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A new species and first record of the genus Triacanthella Schäffer, 1897 (Collembola, Poduromorpha, Hypogastruridae) for Africa

ZooKeys, 2012
The first species of the genus Triacanthella to be recorded from Africa is described. Triacanthella madiba sp. n. belongs to the Southern Hemisphere group of the genus. It is morphologically closely related to T. vogeli Weiner & Najt, 1997 from Chile,
Charlene Janion, Cyrille D`Haese, Louis Deharveng   +2 more
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Beyond species diversity: Functional responses of cave arthropods to microclimatic stability and structural complexity

Ecological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 715-728, August 2026.
Species richness declined along cave microclimatic gradient, while diversity increased with habitat heterogeneity, highlighting distinct roles of abiotic conditions and structural complexity in shaping arthropod communities. Functional traits shifted along the microclimatic gradient, with larger‐bodied and more eye‐regressed arthropods dominating under
Raluca Ioana Bǎncilǎ, Augustin Nae, Ioana Nae, Eugen Nitzu, Andrei Giurginca, Ionuţ Popa, Stefan Cǎtǎlin Baba, Rodica Plǎiaşu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical distribution and driving mechanisms of soil microarthropods in a Stipa baicalensis meadow steppe under long-term nitrogen addition

Ecological Indicators
Soil microarthropods are sensitive to environmental changes and can respond quickly to external fluctuations in the environment. To investigate the response of soil microarthropod communities to long-term nitrogen addition in a Stipa baicalensis meadow ...
Zhendan Wu, Shangfei Ma, Junyan Lu, He Ye, Dianlin Yang, Mei Hong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geographic Variation in the Diet of Red Knot (Calidris canutus) Chicks Reflects Local Prey Communities

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To describe and compare the diets of an Arctic‐breeding shorebird, the Red Knot (Calidris canutus), across three geographically distinct breeding sites. We aimed to document the dietary patterns and identify key prey groups that characterise each population's foraging ecology.
Reinier Blok, Mikhail K. Zhemchuzhnikov, Tim Oortwijn, Jannik Hansen, James A. Johnson, Niels Martin Schmidt, Judith D. L. van Bleijswijk, Elena Zhemchuzhnikova, Thomas K. Lameris, Jeroen Reneerkens, Tom Versluijs, Zachary M. Pohlen, Jan A. van Gils   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined heat and drought affect the abundance, composition and diversity of subalpine surface‐active soil arthropod communities

Ecological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 98-112, February 2026.
We applied factorial soil warming and moisture reduction treatments directly in the field in the Australian subalpine to assess changes to surface‐active soil arthropod abundance, diversity and community composition. After identifying nearly 50,000 specimens to order, we found a stronger effect of sampling month than treatment.
Kate R. Farkas, Zachary A. Brown, James L. King, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Megan L. Head, Pieter A. Arnold   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergent evolution underground - two new troglomorphic collembolan species of the genus Schaefferia Absolon, 1900 (Collembola, Poduromorpha, Hypogastruridae) from Iran and Montenegro [PDF]

Subterranean Biology
Two new subterranean springtail species of the genus Schaefferia Absolon, 1900 are described: S. greensladeae sp. nov. from Danial Cave in the Alborz Mountains, Iran, and S. montenegrina sp. nov. from Babatuša Cave in Dinaric Karst, Montenegro.
Ľubomír Kováč, Marko Karaman, Mahmood Mehrafrooz Mayvan   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Micro Gondwana: soil and litter mesofauna in the subalpine and alpine of North‐West Nelson, southern New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 944-966, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Alpine ecosystems are vulnerable to the warming climate, yet alpine soil mesofauna remains the less studied part of NZ biodiversity. Here we present a survey of soil mesofauna communities of three mountain peaks in the Nelson‐Tasman and Marlborough regions of the South Island of New Zealand.
Maria A. Minor, Alastair W. Robertson
wiley   +1 more source

StrataSeq: A Workflow for Rapid Development of Molecular Databases for Hard‐To‐Identify Species

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
Biodiversity loss calls for better monitoring of small, species‐rich taxa, such as soil invertebrates, but traditional methods are limited due to complex morphology and lack of expertise. DNA‐based approaches offer a solution, but their effectiveness depends on incomplete molecular reference databases.
Anna K. Merges, Peter Manning, Dennis Baulechner, Katharina John, Andrey Zaitsev, Volkmar Wolters, Damian Baranski, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Jason Woodhouse, Clément Schneider, Miklós Bálint   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source