Insects and other arthropods are central to terrestrial ecosystems. However, data are lacking
regarding their global population abundance. We synthesized thousands of evaluations …

How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative
dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other …

An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of
living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the …

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, more potent than carbon dioxide, and emitted from
a variety of natural sources including wetlands, permafrost, mammalian guts and termites …

Many attributes of interest in forest inventories must be estimated using lookup tables or
equations, collectively referred to as models. Stem volume, for instance, is rarely measured …

A description of termite biology, distribution and diversity, economic importance, and
sustainable management is presented. Liquid termiticide injection to soil, to establish a toxic …

Asexual queen succession (AQS), in which workers, soldiers and dispersing reproductives
are produced sexually while numerous non-dispersing queens arise through thelytokous …

Abstract The Northern Atlantic Forest (NAF) is located north of the São Francisco River,
encompassing the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco and …

Abstract The New World Anoplotermes group is a common and diverse clade of soil-
dwelling soldierless termites that is undergo-ing needed taxonomic reclassification. Based …

Termites play a key role as ecosystem engineers in numerous ecological processes though
their role in the dynamics of wood degradation in tropical dry forests, particularly at the level …