Bees are important pollinators of wild and domesticated flowering plant species. Over the
last 30 years, an increasing number of scientific articles have been published on the ecology …

Ants are widely distributed in both tropics and temperate regions at different altitudes. They
are both scavengers and predators, and serve as indicators of climate change at micro and …

As part of the German Barcode of Life campaign, over 3500 arachnid specimens have been
collected and analyzed: ca. 3300 Araneae and 200 Opiliones, belonging to almost 600 …

Restoring dead-wood amounts in forests is an increasingly and successfully applied
conservation measure to counteract negative effects of intensive logging on biodiversity of …

Insect Collection and Identification: Techniques for the Field and Laboratory, Second
Edition, is the definitive text on all aspects required for collecting and properly preparing …

Laboulbeniales is one of the most peculiar orders of Ascomycota. These fungi are
characterized by an ectoparasitic life-style on arthropods, determinate growth, lack of an …

Aim European temperate forests have lost dead wood and the associated biodiversity owing
to intensive management over centuries. Nowadays, some of these forests are being …

Recent advances in DNA analysis allow us to identify an unprecedented number of insect
samples collected by mass sampling techniques such as insect traps. In these …

Background. Broad-scale monitoring of arthropods is often carried out with passive traps
(eg, Malaise traps) that can collect thousands of specimens per sample. The identification of …

Body mass is a frequently used trait in ecological and evolutionary research. In the present
study, I demonstrate that sampling and storage conditions affect wet and dry weights in an …