The invasion of jumping worms, a small group of pheretimoid earthworm species from Asia,
has increasingly become an ecological, environmental and conservation issue in forest …

Global warming is predicted to significantly alter species physiology, biotic interactions and
thus ecosystem functioning, as a consequence of coexisting species exhibiting a wide range …

Megascolecid earthworms of the pheretimoid group are dominant detritivores of soil
ecosystems in the Japanese Archipelago and East Asia. However, their diversity and …

Body size is a life history trait that determines the reproductive success of a variety of
organisms. Changes in body size may have a genetic component when persistent …

The body size of a univoltine carabid beetle Carabus tosanus on Shikoku Island, Japan, was
clearly smaller in higher‐altitude populations (subspecies), which possibly represents …

Aim Latitudinal clines of species diversity are widely documented in terrestrial and marine
ecosystems. However, the processes governing species diversity gradients in riverine …

Reproductive interference due to interspecific hybridization can lead to character
displacement among related species with overlapping ranges. However, no studies have …

Samples of Carabus odoratus barguzinicus Shil. сollected in different altitudes of Barguzin
Mountain Range at the northeast part of Baikal Lake (N 54° 20'; E 109° 30', Russia). In total …

Body size is an integrative trait with substantial fitness consequences in animals.
Geographical clines in body size have fascinated biologists because of their potential to …

Sexual size dimorphism in ground beetles and its variation in altitude gradient Page 15 In:
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