Biological invasions constitute a major environmental change driver, affecting conservation,
agriculture and human health. Invasive alien species (IAS) impacts include, alterations of …

Terrestrial ecologists and soil modelers have traditionally portrayed the inhabitants of soil as
a black box labeled as “soil fauna” or “decomposers or detritivores” assuming that they just …

Collembola are among the most abundant and diverse soil microarthropods, which are
found in almost all (semi) terrestrial environments and often serve as model organisms in …

Several recent estimates of global biodiversity have concluded that the total number of
species on Earth lies near the lower end of the wide range touted in previous decades …

Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with 520 currently known species worldwide,
can be extremely difficult to identify species level based on the morphology. We used 3,670 …

Simple Summary Due to climate change, glaciers are retreating. On newly deglaciated
ground, ecosystems gradually evolve through the process of primary succession. This gives …

Clustering approaches are pivotal to handle the many sequence variants obtained in DNA
metabarcoding data sets, and therefore they have become a key step of metabarcoding …

Despite its ancient origin, global distribution and abundance in nearly all habitats, the class
C ollembola is comprised of only 8000 described species and is estimated to number no …

Background The accurate delimitation of species is essential to numerous areas of
biological research. An unbiased assessment of the diversity, including the cryptic diversity …

Investigating functional facets of biodiversity across elevation gradients provides the
perspective to deepen understanding of the response of communities to global changes …