As mature tropical forests are cleared, secondary forests may play an important role in the
conservation of animal species, depending on how fast animal communities recover during …

Even if termites are often considered as a pest due to the damage they cause to agriculture
and architecture, they contribute to the soil humification process in the tropics. This impact …

Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many
thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as …

Termite assemblages are considered as complex systems containing species with several
modes of feeding and nesting, which have a major though not necessarily dominant role in …

Termites are major decomposers in tropical regions and play an important role in soil
processes. This study measured the impact of land‐use intensification on the termite …

Data are presented for termite assemblages across an anthropogenic disturbance gradient
in the humid forest zone of West and Central Africa. Sampling was by standardised 100 m× …

Summary 1 Tropical biodiversity is seriously threatened by deforestation but few studies
have quantified its impact. We aimed to measure the impact of forest clearance and different …

Aim To (1) describe termite functional diversity patterns across five tropical regions using
local species richness sampling of standardized areas of habitat;(2) assess the relative …

Few studies have directly assessed how rapidly functionally important insect communities
recover following rain forest loss and fragmentation. In 1986, B. Klein compared the dung …

Few ecosystem restoration studies evaluate whether arthropods are important components
of ecosystem recovery. We tested the hypothesis that ponderosa pine restoration treatments …