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Nest predation of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis (Aves, Procellariiformes) by introduced mammals on Terceira Is…
The Azores holds the largest population of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis (Cory, 1881) (Aves, Procellariiformes) in the world. Apart from a few mammal-free islets, the bul…
Xicotli Data: a project to retrieve plant-bee interactions from citizen science
Xicotli data is the short name given to the dataset generated within the project framework "Integration of Biodiversity Data for the Management and Conservation of Wild Bee-Plant …
A new species of Wuliphantes from Sichuan, China, with re-description on the type specimens of W. tongluensis (Araneae,…
The genus Wuliphantes Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023 is a small genus in the family Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859, with only three species: W. guanshan (Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2022), W. to…
Eine Methode zur konzentrationsunabhängigen Früherkennung von Salzwasserintrusionen in süßwasserführende Grundwasserlei…
[...] Dieser Fachartikel stellt ein innovatives hydrogeochemisches Bewertungsverfahren zur Früherkennung von Salzwassereinflüssen in süßwasserführenden Grundwasserleitern vor. Die…
Assessment of the DNA barcode libraries for the study of the poorly-known rove beetle (Staphylinidae) fauna of West Sib…
Staphylinidae, or rove beetles, are one of the mega-diverse and abundant families of the ground-living terrestrial arthropods that is taxonomically poorly known even in the region…
Floristic inventory and distribution characteristics of algific talus slopes in a specific area of forest biodiversity …
This study conducted a survey for establishing in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures for northern lineage plants that are vulnerable to climate change and for designating Fore…
Documenting Mantodea species in South African museum collections and an updated species list
The previous species list of South African Mantodea, published in 1998, was largely compiled from the literature and did not incorporate data from the many insect museum collectio…
Australia’s east coast humpback whales: Satellite tag-derived movements on breeding grounds, feeding grounds and along …
Satellite tags were deployed on 50 east Australian humpback whales (breeding stock E1) between 2008 and 2010 on their southward migration, northward migration and feeding grounds …
Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women
A discussion on social media led to the formation of a multidisciplinary group working on this project to highlight women’s contributions to science. The role of marginalised grou…
Diversity of parasitoid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera) in oilseed rape fields in Serbia
Oilseed rape is an important crop grown worldwide and used for various purposes, including oil extraction and animal feed. In Europe, there are six major pest species and several …
Occurrence dataset of birds in Sihong Hongze Lake Wetlands National Nature Reserve in China
Hongze Lake is China’s fourth largest freshwater lake and is also an important habitat for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds on the East Asian-Australian Flyway (EAAF). Sih…
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections
Tens of millions of images from biological collections have become available online over the last two decades. In parallel, there has been a dramatic increase in the capabilities …
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) climate zones and its associated agrobiodiversity in Arauca, Colombia
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L) is one of the most relevant crops in terms of economy and social rural development in Colombia. Cacao is also an important crop due to its potential to r…
Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers
Linking records for the same taxa between different databases is an essential step when working with biodiversity data. However, name-matching alone is error-prone, because of iss…
Molecular diversity of Protura in southern High Appalachian leaf litter
The higher elevations of the southern Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A., host a rich, but little-studied fauna of Proturan hexapods. Here, we publish 117 Proturan barcode sequences fr…
SPARSE 1.0: a template for databases of species inventories, with an open example of Czech birds
Here, we introduce SPARSE (acronym for "SPecies AcRoss ScalEs"), a simple and portable template for databases that can store data on species composition derived from ecological in…
First genetic insights of Gonatodes caudiscutatus (Reptilia, Gekkota) in the Galapagos Islands and mainland Ecuador
Studies on genetic variability amongst native and introduced species contribute to a better understanding of the genetic diversity of species along their autochthonous distributio…
Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation
In this study, we aim to uncover diet preferences for the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri (Leisler's bat, the lesser noctule) and to provide recommendations for conservation o…
Cave-adapted millipedes from Portugal: species conservation profiles
Amongst the cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda), there are several endemic species in Portugal with a very small geographical distribution. These species play an important role i…
Telenomus cristatus Johnson (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae): new diagnostic data, distribution records and host associations
Specimens of an egg parasitoid wasp, Telenomus cristatus Johnson (Platygastroidea, Scelionidae), were reared from stink bug egg masses collected in the wild, in Maryland, United S…
Odonate diversity of a highly urbanised region: An annotated checklist of the damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta, Odo…
Given their sensitivity to environmental alterations, odonates act as reliable bioindicators to assess the effects of changes in freshwater ecosystems and associated terrestrial h…
Developing the Protocol Infrastructure for DNA Sequencing Natural History Collections
Intentionally preserved biological material in natural history collections represents a vast repository of biodiversity. Advances in laboratory and sequencing technologies have ma…
A comprehensive database of squirrel distribution and occurrence in South Asia
The Squirrels of South Asia (SOSA) database compiles comprehensive distribution and occurrence information on all squirrel species that occur in this region (34 species). These 34…
A georeferenced database of the edaphic biota currently available for Argentina
Soils have been studied and classified in terms of their physical and chemical characteristics, while the knowledge about biodiversity and the ecosystem processes that they suppor…
First record of theridiosomatid genus Sennin Suzuki, Hiramatsu & Tatsuta, 2022 from Anhui Province, China, with the des…
Only two Sennin species are known from the world, Sennin coddingtoni (Zhu, Zhang & Chen, 2001) from China and Sennin tanikawai Suzuki, Hiramatsu & Tatsuta, 2022 from Ryukyu Island…
Biodiversity of aquatic organisms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
The Mekong River is the 10th largest river in the world. It is recognised as the most productive river in Southeast Asia and economically essential to the region, with an estimate…
DNA Barcode library of the endemic-rich avifauna of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea
The BioSTP: DNA Barcoding of endemic birds from oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea dataset contains records of 155 bird specimens belonging to 56 species in 23 families, repres…
Black gold rush - Evaluating the efficiency of the Fractionator in separating Hymenoptera families in a meadow ecosyste…
In the face of insect decline, monitoring projects are launched widely to assess trends of insect populations. Collecting over long time periods results in large numbers of sample…
Spider fauna (Arachnida, Araneae) in Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park “Smolny” (Russia)
Ecosystems in protected areas are richer in animal and plant species diversity ("biodiversity hotspots") due to more stringent conservation conditions. Of particular importance is…
Updated checklist of polychaete species (Annelida) recorded from Malaysia, with remarks on the research history
An updated comprehensive checklist of polychaete species, which have been recorded from Malaysian waters, is provided, with their geographic distributions and the research history…
Ingenieurgeologische Untersuchungen von Deep-seated Gravitational Slope Deformations (DSGSD) und ihre Auswirkungen im D…
Tiefgreifende Hangbewegungen stellen neben Muren und Lawinen, welche durch Faktoren wie Extremniederschlagsereignisse und Unterschneidungsvorgänge entstehen, eine akute Gefahr f…
The MOBIOS+: A FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) database for Mindanao's terrestrial biodiversity
Due to its complex geological history and the emergence of various biogeographic regions, the Philippines boasts an extraordinary array of flora and fauna. This unique combination…
Effects of a short-term temperature increase on arthropod communities associated with pastures
The impact of climate change on islands is expected to cause dramatic consequences on native biodiversity. However, limited data are available for arthropod communities in island …
Aligning Standards Communities for Omics Biodiversity Data: Sustainable Darwin Core-MIxS Interoperability
The standardization of data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), plays a pivotal role in facilitating data (re-)use, integration, and knowledge genera…
Ants of Mexico: Distribution and species richness in environments with varying levels of human impact
Anthropogenic disturbance, primarily driven by land-use changes, has caused alterations in ecosystems and biodiversity, including the ant community. Therefore, the aim of this stu…
The observation records from whale and dolphin watching inshore of Hualien, eastern Taiwan
The eastern waters of Taiwan have been lacking baseline and research data for several years. This study was initiated by Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation (KOEF) in collaboratio…
DNA barcoding of Japanese earwig species (Insecta, Dermaptera), with sequence diversity analyses of three species of An…
Dermaptera is a polyneopteran insect order that includes more than 2,000 described species, commonly known as earwigs, that mainly inhabit tropical, subtropical and warm temperate…
Diversity and distribution of Orchidaceae in one of the world's most threatened plant hotspots (Madagascar)
Introduction. In recent decades, Madagascar has become one of the most important plant hotspots in the world. The country's remaining forests and vegetation are disappearing at an…
Ten years and a million links: building a global taxonomic library connecting persistent identifiers for names, publica…
A major gap in the biodiversity knowledge graph is a connection between taxonomic names and the taxonomic literature. While both names and publications often have persistent ident…
Blowfly-derived mammal DNA as mammal diversity assessment tool: Determination of dispersal activity and flight range of…
Mammalian DNA extracted from the invertebrates, especially blowfly-derived DNA, has been suggested as a useful tool to complement traditional field methods for terrestrial mammal …
Uloma (Uloma) intricornicula Liu, Ren & Wang, 2007 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini): Descriptions of the larva and …
The genus Uloma Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini) comprises more than 200 species and subspecies worldwide, 37 of which are recorded from China. However, the morph…
Small rodent monitoring at Birkebeiner Road, Norway
Northern small mammal populations are renowned for their multi-annual population cycles. Population cycles are multi-faceted and have extensive impacts on the rest of the ecosyste…
Diversity and composition of flower-visiting insects and related factors in three fruit tree species
Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem service for the production of many fruit trees. To reveal the community composition of flower-visiting wild insects which pot…
Three new species of Camptoscaphiella Caporiacco, 1934 (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Yunnan Province, China
Camptoscaphiella Caporiacco, 1934 is a small genus of oonopid spiders that currently contains 20 species, of which five have been recorded in Yunnan, China.Three new species of Ca…
Catalogue of type specimens deposited in the Herpetology Collection of the Natural History Museum Gustavo Orcés V. at E…
The Herpetology Collection of the Natural History Museum Gustavo Orcés V. at Escuela Politécnica Nacional (MEPN-H) in Quito maintains more than sixteen thousand curated specimens …
All records of rodents (Mammalia, Rodentia) and hares (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) in Georgia from 1855 through to 2022
In Georgia, there are 40 species from 21 genera and nine families of rodents, along with one species from a single genus and a family of hares. The dataset, which includes 3146 re…
Exploring the vegetation of the coastal road in Puerto Cisnes, southern Chile: a vascular plant inventory
In areas of low disturbance, such as the Aysén Region of Chile, the presence of roads can inadvertently facilitate the spread of invasive species. To address this issue, it is imp…
Revealing the hidden biodiversity of Antarctic and the Magellanic Sub-Antarctic Ecoregion: A comprehensive study of aqu…
Antarctica, its outlying archipelagoes and the Magellanic Subantarctic (MSA) ecoregion are amongst the last true wilderness areas remaining on the planet. Therefore, the publicati…
Viability of zooplankton resting eggs in rice field sediment after pesticide applications
Many herbicide products are commonly used in agricultural areas to prevent and eliminate weeds. Contamination from these toxicants in water might affect aquatic organisms not only…
An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians
The current paper presents a nomenclatural checklist for vascular plants validated being (sub)endemic to and present in the flora of the Ukrainian Carpathians. This checklist is a…
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