Despite the historical efforts to list and organize the taxonomic knowledge about the
Brazilian ant fauna, the most diverse in the world, several gaps regarding species …

In urban landscapes, gardens provide refuges for bee diversity, but conservation potential
may depend on local and landscape features. Foraging and population persistence of bee …

Nowadays 37% of Earth's ice-free land is composed by fragments of natural habitats settled
in anthropogenic biomes. Therefore, we have to improve our knowledge about distribution of …

Environmental indicators can be used to evaluate natural recovery processes. Although
several studies have used ant assemblage metrics as environmental indicators, few try to …

The assumption that the description of any system depends on spatial and temporal scale
has moved researchers to incorporate scale as another factor in determining the …

Aim The relationship between species number and area is of fundamental importance in
macroecology and conservation science, yet the implications of different means of …

In contrast to the terrestrial environment, where the use of landscape analyses has been
clearly demonstrated, the influence of landscape composition and configuration on the …

The demands of a growing human population have resulted in global-scale conversion of
land to agriculture, and with the world population expected to increase by 50% to 9 billion by …

This study evaluates the response of the ant communities along a habitat regeneration
gradient in the south Atlantic Forest comparing it with the ant fauna from a mature forest at …

This book brings together a wide range of sampling methods for investigating different
arthropod groups. Each chapter is organized to describe and evaluate the main sampling …