30 articles in this issue
Antonio Bode and Santiago Hernández-León
Plankton living in the deep ocean either migrate to the surface to feed or feed in situ on other organisms and detritus. Planktonic communities in the upper 800 m of the tropical and equatorial Atlantic were studied using the natural abundance of stable c... see more
Paula Matono, Janine Da Silva and Maria Ilhéu
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Luciana Cristina Vitorino and Layara Alexandre Bessa
The ecological and biotechnological services that microorganisms provide to the planet and human society highlight the need to understand and preserve microbial diversity, which is widely distributed, challenging the severity of certain environments. Cata... see more
Bradley Law, Leroy Gonsalves, Traecey Brassil and David Hill
Victoria J. Bennett and Amanda M. Hale
Stanimira Deleva and Gloriana Chaverri
The Brunca region in Costa Rica contains the largest number of caves in the country, yet the diversity and distribution of bat species within those caves is currently unknown. Without this information, it is not possible to assess changes in populations a... see more
Michael H. Paller
Assessing fish species richness at the scale of an entire watershed or multiple watersheds is important when designing conservation areas and maintaining aquatic biodiversity. Estimating biodiversity at this scale requires considering the effects of habit... see more
Luiz A. D. Falcão, Mário M. Espírito-Santo, G. W. Fernandes and Adriano P. Paglia
Bats play a fundamental role in ecosystem functioning since they are responsible for several ecological services such as seed dispersal and pollination. Therefore, assessing the effects of habitat structure at different scales on the bat assemblage is ext... see more
Lawrence R. Kirkendall
Kaye Currey, Dave Kendal, Rodney Van der Ree and Pia E. Lentini
William Tang, Guang Xu, Charles W. O’Brien, Michael Calonje, Nico M. Franz, M. Andrew Johnston, Alberto Taylor, Andrew P. Vovides, Miguel Angel Pérez-Farrera, Silvia H. Salas-Morales, Julio C. Lazcano-Lara, Paul Skelley, Cristina Lopez-Gallego, Anders Lindström and Stephen Rich
Roberto Caldara and Michael Koštál
Stefanie K. Oberprieler, Alan N. Andersen and Craig C. Moritz
Taryn D. Laubenstein, Jodie L. Rummer, Simon Nicol, Darren M. Parsons, Stephen M. J. Pether, Stephen Pope, Neville Smith and Philip L. Munday
Michael Koštál and Peter Vdacný
Based on intrinsic morphological and extrinsic bionomic characters, the systematic position of the weevil tribe Acentrusini Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) was determined. Maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference as well a... see more
Andrea S. Sequeira, Nicolás Rocamundi, M. Silvia Ferrer, Matias C. Baranzelli and Adriana E. Marvaldi
Marina Siqueira Barroso, Brenno J. Da Silva, Manuel J. Flores Montes and Paulo J. P. Santos
The number of studies demonstrating the susceptibility of benthic reef communities to anthropogenic impacts is growing. However, for some of the components of reef fauna, such as meiobenthic harpacticoid copepods, information is still lacking. Here, diffe... see more
Ann B. Swengel and Scott R. Swengel
Roman Borovec, Rolf G. Oberprieler and Massimo Meregalli
Michael J. Lacki
Jirí Skuhrovec, Peter Hlavác and Jan Batelka
Renan Granado, Luiza C. Pinto Neta, André F. Nunes-Freitas, Carolina M. Voloch and Catarina F. Lira
Rafael A. Magris, Alana Grech and Robert L. Pressey
Effective management of coral reefs requires strategies tailored to cope with cumulative disturbances from human activities. In Brazil, where coral reefs are a priority for conservation, intensifying threats from local and global stressors are of paramoun... see more
Concetta Lotti, Paolo Iovieno, Isabella Centomani, Angelo R. Marcotrigiano, Valentina Fanelli, Giancarlo Mimiola, Carmine Summo, Stefano Pavan and Luigi Ricciardi
Allen Kurta, Giorgia G. Auteri, Joyce E. Hofmann, Jean M. Mengelkoch, J. Paul White, John O. Whitaker, Jr., Thomas Cooley and Julie Melotti
Pingchuan Li, Surendra Bhattarai, Gregory W. Peterson, Bruce Coulman, Michael P. Schellenberg, Bill Biligetu and Yong-Bi Fu
Dindin H. Mursyidin, Purnomo Purnomo, Issirep Sumardi and Budi S. Daryono
Conrad P.D.T. Gillett, Christopher H. Lyal, Alfried P. Vogler and Brent C. Emerson
Chaya Sarathchandra, Stephan Kambach, Sameera Chathuranga Ariyarathna, Jianchu Xu, Rhett D. Harrison and Sriyani Wickramasinghe
Sri Lanka is an island nation where ~59% of the population live in coastal regions. The main income source in these areas is fishing, which contributes to ~44% of the national GDP. Fishery resources depend on mangroves, especially in estuaries and lagoons... see more
Giandomenico Corrado and Rosa Rao
The rapid progress and increasing affordability of novel investigation tools in plant genetics and biotechnology offer previously inaccessible opportunities for the exploitation of plant genetic diversity in agriculture. The Special Issue was lunched to h... see more