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Appropriate sampling methods are essential for monitoring and managing all wildlife. There
is limited information on how to monitor ground-dwelling invertebrates in the alpine zone …

Terrestrial arthropods are extremely important ecosystem components. The choice of best
approaches to collect the wide range of terrestrial arthropods has been a topic of long …

Pitfall trapping is probably the most frequently used method for sampling grounddwelling
arthropods. While the capture of specimens in pitfall traps largely depends on the number of …

Pitfall traps are widely used for sampling ground-dwelling arthropods. Their sampling
efficiency is affected by several factors, eg material, size and modification of parts of the trap …

Since the 1980s, many regions in Africa that are rich in mineral resources have undertaken
significant reforms to attract foreign investments. While the reforms have broadly boosted …

The composition of spider communities in forests is affected by habitat characteristics, such
as canopy openness, vegetation cover or tree species diversity; therefore, we assume that …

River banks are naturally disturbed habitats, in which local flood events and the landscape
structure are expected to govern riparian species assemblages. Not solely effects of flooding …

Pitfall trapping is the standard technique to estimate activity and relative abundance of leaf
litter arthropods. Pitfall trapping is not ideal for long‐term sampling because it is lethal, labor …

Ants are widely distributed in both tropics and temperate regions at different altitudes. They
are both scavengers and predators, and serve as indicators of climate change at micro and …