Large-scale studies on community ecology are highly desirable but often difficult to
accomplish due to the considerable investment of time, labor and, money required to …

This study is a part of an ongoing comprehensive inventory of Bulgarian spiders. A total of
fifty spider species belonging to thirteen families are reported for the first time from Bulgaria …

Recent estimates suggest that the global insect fauna includes fewer than six million
species, but this projection is very uncertain because taxonomic work has been limited on …

Nested within the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, the Dinaric Karst of the western
Balkans is one of the world's most heterogeneous subterranean ecosystems and renowned …

DNA barcoding and metabarcoding provide new avenues for investigating biological
systems. These techniques require well‐curated reference libraries with extensive coverage …

As part of the German Barcode of Life campaign, over 3500 arachnid specimens have been
collected and analyzed: ca. 3300 Araneae and 200 Opiliones, belonging to almost 600 …

Among the 899 species of freshwater fishes reported from Sundaland biodiversity hotspot,
nearly 50% are endemics. The functional integrity of aquatic ecosystems is currently …

Spiders collected during field trips and by spontaneous hand collection throughout Georgia
between the years 2006 and 2023 were determined to species and partially assisted by …

Background Comprehensive biotic surveys, or 'all taxon biodiversity inventories'(ATBI), have
traditionally been limited in scale or scope due to the complications surrounding specimen …

Abstract Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) are among the smallest of terrestrial
arthropods and the most species‐rich group of herbivorous mites with a high host specificity …