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ABSTRACT Acoustic and substrate‐borne vibrations are among the most widely used signalling modalities in animals. Arthropods display a staggering diversity of vibroacoustic organs generating acoustic sound and/or substrate‐borne vibrations, and are fundamental to our broader understanding of the evolution of animal signalling.
Leonidas‐Romanos Davranoglou +2 more
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Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities
Our study quantifies the importance of litter vs. living root resources for soil animals across 30 taxonomic groups after conversion of rainforest into monoculture plantations. The results suggest that roots are of similar importance to litter for the soil animal food web, with root trenching effects being stronger in soil than in litter and litter ...
Zheng Zhou +5 more
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ABSTRACT Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services ...
Anton M. Potapov +25 more
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The Solnhofen Konservat‐Lagerstätte yields a great number of remarkably preserved fossils of eumalacostracan crustaceans that help us understand the early radiation of several groups with modern representatives. One fossil from there, Francocaris grimmi Broili, 1917 is a small shrimp‐like crustacean originally described about 100 years ago as a ...
Paula G. Pazinato +4 more
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Se describe un nuevo esquizómido del género Rowlandius Reddell & Cokendolpher, 1995, proveniente de la Sierra de San Luis, Estado Falcón, en Venezuela noroccidental. Rowlandius arduus sp. n.
Luis F. de Armas +2 more
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book review: Harvey Mark S. (2003): Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Includes checklists for Europe of: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Solifugae.
Blick, Theo
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Se analizaron los contenidos estomacales de 209 individuos de la rana de invernadero Eleutherodactylus planirostris provenientes de 3 sitios de la península de Yucatán, México, donde ésta es una especie invasora.
Tania Ramírez-Valverde +3 more
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SCHIZOMUS SIAMENSIS (SCHIZOMIDA: SCHIZOMIDAE) FROM EASTERN ASIA AND HAWAII
A male lectotype and paralectotypes (male and female) are designated from material collected in Thailand. A complete synonymy and records from Hong Kong, Ryukyu Islands of Japan, and Hawaiian Islands of U.S.A, are provided. The female genitalia is illustrated for the first time.
COKENDOLPHER, James C. +1 more
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Se describe una nueva especie de Hansenochrus Reddell & Cokendolpher, 1995, la cual habita en una caverna del Estado Lara en la región noroccidental de Venezuela y es la cuarta especie del mismo conocida para este país. Hansenochrus urbanii sp.
Osvaldo Villarreal Manzanilla +1 more
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ORDER SCHIZOMIDA HUBBARDIIDAE arboreus Cokendolpher & Reddell, 2000: 192, figs. 10–15. Surazomus Holotype: male, INPA-SC 2; Brazil, Amazonas, Manaus, Rio Tarumã-Mirim, blackwater inundation forest (Igapó), arboreal photo-electors directed upward, J. Adis leg., 02.IX.1976 (51D TM). chavin Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996: 265, figs. 1–7.
Saturnino, Regiane +2 more
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