1. Grassland ecosystems have been used worldwide for food production through pastoral
and cropping activities. In these ecosystems, spiders constitute important mesopredators …

From regional to global scales, anthropogenic environmental change is causing biodiversity
loss and reducing ecosystem functionality. Previous studies have investigated the …

Although the number of studies on soil and ground-dwelling fauna is constantly increasing,
only few focus on high alpine areas. We conducted a comprehensive survey of ground …

It is essential to predict areas of losses or exchanges of ecosystem services to adapt
communities to the impacts caused by climate change. Particularly for provisioning …

The open ecosystem (eg grasslands, prairies, shrublands) tends to be ecologically less
stable than closed one (ie forests) and encompassess higher spatial heterogeneity in terms …

Temperature and competition are two of the main factors determining ant community
assemblages. Temperature may allow species to forage more or less efficiently throughout …

High diversity in tropical compared to temperate regions has long intrigued ecologists,
especially for highly speciose taxa like terrestrial arthropods in tropical rainforests. Previous …

Greece is a European hotspot for Orthoptera (378 species), yet it has been scarcely
explored. We investigated the diversity patterns of Orthoptera and the ecological …

Local microgeographic sites subdivided by sharp ecological and climatic contrasts are
important platforms for measuring biodiversity patterns and inferring the possible effect of …

The impact of climate change on islands is expected to cause dramatic consequences on
native biodiversity. However, limited data are available for arthropod communities in island …