Stingless bees and their adaptations to extreme environments

M Hrncir, C Maia-Silva… - Journal of Comparative …, 2019 - Springer
Nearly half of all terrestrial tropical ecosystems around the globe comprise dry forests,
characterised through elevated temperatures all year round, and short rainy seasons at …

Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation

C Ocampo‐Ariza, J Vansynghel, D Bertleff… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bird‐and bat‐mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such
as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly …

Seasonal variation of arthropod diversity in agroforestry systems in the humid tropics of Mexico

LA Lara-Pérez, G Villanueva-López… - Arthropod-Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Agroforestry systems in the tropics exhibit high heterogeneity in plant species composition
and structural configuration. However, few studies evaluated the seasonal shift in arthropod …

Diptera (Insecta) de importância forense da região Neotropical

ACF Alves, WE dos Santos, AJ Creão-Duarte - Entomotropica, 2014 - saber.ucv.ve
Uma compilação de registros das principais espécies de moscas encontradas em carcaças
e cadáveres na região Neotropical, incluindo o substrato, ambiente e distribuição …

Supercritical CO2 extraction of favela (Cnidoscolus quercifolius) seed oil: Yield, composition, antioxidant activity, and mathematical modeling

KA Santos, EA da Silva, C da Silva - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2020 - Elsevier
Cnidoscolus quercifolius seeds were subjected to oil extraction with supercritical CO 2 at 40,
50, and 60° C and 20, 25, and 30 MPa for 120 min at 5 g min− 1. The oils obtained were …

The influence of ecological factors on mosquito abundance and occurrence in Galápagos

S Asigau, PG Parker - Journal of Vector Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We sampled mosquitoes across 18 sites established at different elevations and stretching
from the north to the south of Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos. Two commonly occurring species …

New species of Histiotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from northeastern Brazil.

A Feijo, PA Da Rocha, SL Althoff - Zootaxa, 2015 - europepmc.org
Histiotus are vespertilionid bats endemic to South America, easily recognized by its very
long ears. During a twelve-month bat inventory in northeastern Brazil, eleven specimens of …

Soil macroarthropod community and soil biological quality index in a green manure farming system of the Brazilian semi-arid

KS Forstall-Sosa, TAF de Souza, E de Oliveira Lucena… - Biologia, 2021 - Springer
Soil macroarthropods are organisms considered as key factors to sustain soil quality and
sustainability due to their services to soil ecosystem. The community structure and seasonal …

[HTML][HTML] Aquatic insects from the caatinga: checklists and diversity assessments of Ubajara (Ceará State) and Sete Cidades (Piauí State) national parks, Northeastern …

DM Takiya, APM Santos, ÂP Pinto… - Biodiversity data …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Diversity and distribution of Neotropical aquatic insects is still poorly known,
with many species to be recorded and many others to be described, due to the small number …

Environmental variation and seasonal changes as determinants of the spatial distribution of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Neotropical forests

AFA Lira, AM DeSouza… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Habitat selection and seasonal changes are key drivers of the population dynamics of many
species. We analyzed how the environmental structure influences species establishment in …