To understand change in global biodiversity patterns requires large‐scale, long‐term
monitoring. The ability to draw meaningful comparison across studies is severely hampered …

Ecologists carry a well‐stocked toolbox with a great variety of sampling methods, statistical
analyses and modelling tools, and new methods are constantly appearing. Evaluation and …

Urban green spaces, such as forest fragments, vacant lots, and community gardens, are
increasingly highlighted as biodiversity refuges and are of growing interest to conservation …

Appropriate sampling methods are essential for monitoring and managing all wildlife. There
is limited information on how to monitor ground-dwelling invertebrates in the alpine zone …

Landscape complexity may provide ecosystem services to agriculture through the provision
of natural enemies of agricultural pests. Strong positive effect of adjacent semi-natural …

Pitfall traps are widely used for sampling ground-dwelling arthropods. Their sampling
efficiency is affected by several factors, eg material, size and modification of parts of the trap …

Understanding how insects may respond and adapt to global warming is a major challenge
when predicting future biodiversity trends in glacial regions at high altitudes and latitudes of …

The diversity and community composition of ground arthropods is routinely analyzed by
pitfall trap sampling, which is a cost‐and time‐effective method to gather large numbers of …

Background Climate change is particularly pronounced in the High Arctic and a better
understanding of the repercussions on ecological processes like herbivory, predation and …

To determine the diversity of epigaeic arthropods, pitfall traps are a suitable and widely
accepted sampling method. Unfortunately small mammals such as shrews, voles and mice …