Hemipteroid insects (Paraneoptera), with over 10% of all known insect diversity, are a major
component of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Previous phylogenetic analyses have not …

Arguably the majority of species on E arth utilise tropical rainforest canopies, and much
progress has been made in describing arboreal assemblages, especially for arthropods …

Within the expanding agri-cultural frantier in the trop-ies, one can find a variety of smalI,
managed forest patches and tradition al agriculrural systems, which provide a refuge for …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

Floodplains are ecosystems which are driven by periodic inundation and oscillation
between terrestrial and aquatic phases. An understanding of such pulsing systems is only …

The objective of this section is to explore how far global biodiversity may have been
accounted for by taxonomic description, emphasising diversity at the species level. This is …

Biologists are still trying to grasp the global dimensions of the phylum Arthropoda and its
major class the Insecta, in spite of the fact that over a million species of arthropods have …

Aunque los orígenes de las hormigas (cuándo, dónde y cómo) sean misterios que nunca
podremos resolver, lo cierto es que hace unos 100 millones de años ya existían hormigas …

In numbers and biomass, ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) often dominate arthropod faunas
of tropical rainforest canopies. Extraordinary ant abundance is due principally to one or a …

The goal of “strict inventory”(as opposed to community characterization) is to obtain species
lists for specific sites. Quantitatively structured inventory can improve inventory efficiency …