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Brazilian Trichoptera Checklist II
A second assessment of Brazilian Trichoptera species records is presented here. A total of 625 species were recorded for Brazil. This represents an increase of 65.34% new species …
Fauna Europaea: Helminths (Animal Parasitic)
Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographica…
Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web
Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and freshwat…
First description of the male caste of the Himalayan endemic ant Lasius alienoflavus Bingham, 1903 (Hymenoptera: Formic…
The present paper provides a description of the male caste and re-description of the worker and queen castes of the poorly known ant species Lasius alienoflavus Bingham, 1903. Thi…
Nematodes from terrestrial and freshwater habitats in the Arctic
We present an updated list of terrestrial and freshwater nematodes from all regions of the Arctic, for which records of properly identified nematode species are available: Svalbar…
Usage patterns of blue flower color representation by Encyclopedia of Life content providers
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a resource for community-driven biodiversity data, focusing on species information and images. Research into blue flowers to compare color ('blueness…
A dataset for examining trends in publication of new Australian insects
Australian Faunal Directory data were used to create a new, publicly available dataset, nai50, which lists 18318 species and subspecies names for Australian insects described in t…
Symbiota – A virtual platform for creating voucher-based biodiversity information communities
We review the Symbiota software platform for creating voucher-based biodiversity information portals and communities. Symbiota was originally conceived to promote small- to medium…
Enriched biodiversity data as a resource and service
Background: Recent years have seen a surge in projects that produce large volumes of structured, machine-readable biodiversity data. To make these data amenable to processing by g…
The Encyclopedia of Life v2: Providing Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earth
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, http://eol.org) aims to provide unprecedented global access to a broad range of information about life on Earth. It currently contains 3.5 million d…
Why is the lawn buzzing?
Graminoids, including grasses, are frequently described in the botanical literature as being wind-pollinated. This paper offers visual evidence for insect pollination of a grass. …
J.G.C. Lehmann's 'Botanical Observations' of 1818 on Coldenia, Colsmannia, Cynoglossum, and Omphalodes (commented trans…
An annotated English translation of a German early 19th century text including Latin diagnoses is presented with a high-quality scan of the original publication and direct links t…
The Supertree Toolkit 2: a new and improved software package with a Graphical User Interface for supertree construction
Building large supertrees involves the collection, storage, and processing of thousands of individual phylogenies to create large phylogenies with thousands to tens of thousands o…
Review of the genus Metopheltes Uchida, 1932 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with description of a new species from Vietnam
A new species of the genus Metopheltes Uchida (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae), M. clypeoarmatus sp. n. is described from Vietnam. M. petiolaris Uchida, 1932 is recor…
Open source data logger for low-cost environmental monitoring
The increasing transformation of biodiversity into a data-intensive science has seen numerous independent systems linked and aggregated into the current landscape of biodiversity…
Studies in Hawaiian Diptera I: New Distributional Records for Endemic Asteia (Asteiidae)
New island records are reported for five species of Asteia endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (A. hawaiiensis, A. mauiensis, A. molokaiensis, A. palikuensis, A. sabroskyi). These new…
Morphological and Geographical Traits of the British Odonata
Trait data are fundamental for many aspects of ecological research, particularly for modeling species response to environmental change. We synthesised information from the literat…
Postia alni Niemelä & Vampola (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) – member of the problematic Postia caesia complex – has been…
Due to their bluish basidiocarps the Postia caesia (syn. Oligoporus caesius) complex forms a distinctive morphological group within the polypore genus Postia Fr., 1874. Five speci…
Polytraits: A database on biological traits of marine polychaetes
The study of ecosystem functioning – the role which organisms play in an ecosystem – is becoming increasingly important in marine ecological research. The functional structure of …
Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives
We describe an implementation of the Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) standard that allows for the exchange of biodiversity information contained within the Scratchpads virtual researc…
Three new species of the millipede genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 from the Aegean region of Greece (Diplopoda, Glom…
Three new cavernicolous species of Hyleoglomeris are described from Greece: H. subreducta sp.n., from Chios Island, H. translucida sp.n., from Rhodes Island, and H. insularis sp.n…
The millipede Typhloglomeris caucasica Golovatch, 1975 found epigeically (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridellidae)
The millipede Typhloglomeris caucasica Golovatch, hitherto considered as a troglobite confined to several caves near Sochi, western Caucasus, Russia, is recorded epigeically in th…
Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa mountain (FYR Macedonia)
A total of 294 species from 31 families have been found in Galichitsa Mt. Of them, 85 species are new to the mountain, while 20 are also new to the fauna of FYR of Macedonia. Acco…
EXIF Custom: Automatic image metadata extraction for Scratchpads and Drupal
Many institutions and individuals use embedded metadata to aid in the management of their image collections. Many deskop image management solutions such as Adobe Bridge and online…
The BioCASe Monitor Service - A tool for monitoring progress and quality of data provision through distributed data net…
The BioCASe Monitor Service (BMS) is a web-based tool for coordinators of distributed data networks that provide information to web-portals and data aggregators via the BioCASe Pr…
A visual identification key utilizing both gestalt and analytic approaches to identification of Carices present in Nort…
Images are a critical part of the identification process because they enable direct, immediate and relatively unmediated comparisons between a specimen being identified and one or…
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