There has been much recent interest and progress in the characterization of community
structure and community assembly processes through the application of phylogenetic …

Entomobryidae, the largest collembolan family, is traditionally classified at suprageneric
level using a limited set of morphological structures, such as scales, antennal segmentation …

Soil-living animals such as collembolans, earthworms and isopods are considered to be
sedentary animals with only limited dispersal capacities. Therefore, gene flow among …

Biological communities inhabiting the soil are among the most diversified, complex and yet
most poorly studied terrestrial ecosystems. The greatest knowledge gaps apply to the …

Collembola is one of the major functional groups in soil as well as a model taxon in
numerous disciplines. Therefore the accurate identification of specimens is critical, but could …

Aquatic larvae of many Rhithrogena mayflies (Ephemeroptera) inhabit sensitive Alpine
environments. A number of species are on the IUCN Red List and many recognized species …

High‐throughput DNA methods hold great promise for the study of taxonomically intractable
mesofauna of the soil. Here, we assess species diversity and community structure in a …

Despite its ancient origin, global distribution and abundance in nearly all habitats, the class
C ollembola is comprised of only 8000 described species and is estimated to number no …

Southwestern Australia has been recognized as a biodiversity hot spot of global
significance, and it is particularly well known for its considerable diversity of flowering plant …

The pantropical orb web spider family Nephilidae is known for the most extreme sexual size
dimorphism among terrestrial animals. Numerous studies have made Nephilidae …