The role of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in weed seed consumption: a review

SS Kulkarni, LM Dosdall, CJ Willenborg - Weed Science, 2015 - cambridge.org
Weed management is a challenge in all agroecosystems. Given the negative consequences
associated with herbicide-based weed management, it is important to consider integrated …

Consequences of urban living: Urbanization and ground beetles

T Magura, GL Lövei - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Urbanization is increasing worldwide, transforming
environmental and habitat parameters, and causing adverse effects on organisms living in …

Large carabid beetle declines in a United Kingdom monitoring network increases evidence for a widespread loss in insect biodiversity

DR Brooks, JE Bater, SJ Clark… - Journal of applied …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Carabid beetles are important functional components of many terrestrial ecosystems. Here,
we describe the first long‐term, wide‐scale and quantitative assessment of temporal …

[PDF][PDF] Myrmecophily in beetles (Coleoptera): evolutionary patterns and biological mechanisms

J Parker - Myrmecological news, 2016 - antwiki.org
Socially parasitic myrmecophily has evolved numerous times in arthropods, but
myrmecophilous lineages are non-randomly distributed across phylogeny. Evolution of this …

Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

G Ossendorf, AR Groos, T Bromm, MG Tekelemariam… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Studies of early human settlement in alpine environments provide insights into human
physiological, genetic, and cultural adaptation potentials. Although Late and even Middle …

Where have all the beetles gone? Long‐term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany

K Homburg, C Drees, E Boutaud… - Insect Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The drastic insect decline has received increasing attention in scientific as well as in public
media. Long‐term studies of insect diversity trends are still rare, even though such studies …

Urbanization drives community shifts towards thermophilic and dispersive species at local and landscape scales

E Piano, K De Wolf, F Bona, D Bonte… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing conversion of agricultural and natural areas to human‐dominated urban
landscapes is predicted to lead to a major decline in biodiversity worldwide. Two conditions …

Carabids. org–a dynamic online database of ground beetle species traits (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

K Homburg, N Homburg, F Schäfer… - Insect Conservation …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Carabids are a species‐rich group (more than 10 000 species in the Palaearctic region) and
are intensively studied, inter alia due to their roles as bioindicators and mediators of nutrient …

[HTML][HTML] Focusing on the role of abiotic and biotic drivers on cross-taxon congruence

E Bazzato, E Lallai, M Caria, E Schifani, D Cillo… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diversity patterns can show congruence across taxonomic groups. Consistent diversity
patterns allow the identification of indicator surrogates potentially representative of …

Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanization

T Magura, M Ferrante, GL Lövei - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Urbanization profoundly changes environments, ecosystems and biodiversity. The
urban heat island (UHI) effect represents one of the most consistent human‐induced …