Wild and managed bees provide pollination services to crops and wild plants, as well as a
variety of other services beneficial to humans. Honey bees are the most economically …

Museum specimens include genetic information from when they were collected. This
historical information, which is very difficult to ascertain from samples collected currently …

The coastal zone is a transition zone between land and sea, and has a high biodiversity.
Land use changes in the coastal zone will inevitably have huge impacts on habitat quality …

The global transition to renewable energy sources has accelerated to mitigate the effects of
global climate change. Sudden increases in solar power facilities have caused the physical …

Simple Summary Butterflies provide numerous ecological and socio-economic services and
are important indicator species. China is home to over 2000 species of butterflies and in …

A group of temperate grassland plant species termed the “Mansen elements” occurs in
Japan and is widely distributed in the grasslands of continental East Asia. It has been …

The predominantly tropical ophionine genus Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 is one of the
largest genera of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with more than 700 extant …

Over the past century, grassland and forest ecosystems globally have been heavily
influenced by land-use changes driven by diverse socioeconomic activities. Ski resorts are a …

Insects are one of the most diverse eukaryotic groups on the planet, with one million or more
species present, including those yet undescribed. The DNA barcoding system has been …

In human‐altered landscapes, specialist butterflies typically form spatially restricted
populations, genetically differentiated due to dispersal restrictions. Generalists, in contrast …