Temperate Australia sits between the heat engine of the tropics and the cold Southern
Ocean, encompassing a range of rainfall regimes and falling under the influence of different …

I here review the potential effects of climate change on aphidophagous ladybirds and their
future diversity. Aphidophagous ladybirds face challenges arising directly from climatic …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands
Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms …

The degree to which Southern Hemisphere climatic changes during the end of the last
glacial period and early Holocene (30‐8 ka) were influenced or initiated by events occurring …

The fossil record of scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) is reviewed and its
relevance for the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the taxon is explored. After a …

1. Metapopulation and island biogeography theory assume that landscapes consist of
habitat patches set in a matrix of non‐habitat. If only a small proportion of species conform to …

Holocene sediments from Lake Barrine on the Atherton Tableland in tropical north-east
Queensland, Australia (17° 15′ S, 145° 38′ E, 721 m asl) reveal 10 assemblage shifts in …

Australasia, which consists of Australia and the adjacent islands of the southwestern Pacific
Ocean, has an insect diversity approximately proportional to the land mass. This diversity is …

We compare high-resolution pollen and chironomid records from the last 15,000 yr in
Laguna Facil, southern Chile. Major vegetation and chironomid changes are recorded …