Herbivore populations are regulated by bottom‐up control through food availability and
quality and by top‐down control through natural enemies. Intensive agricultural …

Trait‐based approaches can reveal the mechanisms through which disturbances or stress
impact communities, allowing comparisons of the role of different mechanisms in shaping …

Conifer-dominated forests of the Northern Hemisphere are prone to natural disturbances,
such as windstorms, which create canopy openings by downing single trees to complete …

For the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural grasslands, it is essential to understand how
management acts as an ecological filter on the resident species. Mowing constitutes such a …

Community metrics describing the structuring of ecological communities, such as
nestedness and the potential linkages between functional traits and the occurrence of …

Flowery field margins and intersowing of crops with flowers are used as management
practices to promote arthropod biodiversity as well as biocontrol agents. Positive effects of …

As molecular identification method, DNA barcoding based on partial cytochrome c oxidase
subunit 1 (COI) sequences has been proven to be a useful tool for species determination in …

Wooded pastures combine trees and pastures in a land-use system resulting from traditional
silvopastoral practices. With their sparse tree cover, wooded pastures represent an ecotone …

Over the past decades, large amounts of data about carabids have been collected in the
Netherlands, initially for the purpose of creating distribution maps for the country. In addition …

Boundaries between habitats are usually accompanied by transitions in the diversity and
structural complexity of insect assemblages. Edge effects on carabid beetle assemblages …