The ongoing decline of insect populations highlight the need for long-term ecological
monitoring. As part of the “SLAM—Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate …

Since Darwin put forward his opposing hypotheses to explain the successful establishment
of species in areas outside their native ranges, the preadaptation and competition …

The Azorean archipelago, recognized as one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, is home to
a diverse and unique community of arthropod species, highlighting a notable degree of …

This work presents the first outcomes resulting from a DNA barcode reference library of
lepidopteran species from Malta. The library presented here was constructed from the …

Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of
communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for …

Soil arthropod diversity contributes to a high proportion of the total biodiversity on Earth.
However, most soil arthropods are still undescribed, hindering our understanding of soil …

The Special Issue brought together papers that highlighted the power of high-throughput
sequencing (HTS) data to address classic questions in ecology and evolution, and/or use …

Background Incomplete species inventories for Antarctica represent a key challenge for
comprehensive ecological research and conservation in the region. Additionally, data …

While the reciprocal effects of ecological and evolutionary dynamics are increasingly
recognized as an important driver for biodiversity, detection of such eco-evolutionary …