Fire regime of peatlands in the Angolan Highlands

M Lourenco, S Woodborne, JM Fitchett - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Angolan Highlands region includes the Angolan miombo woodland ecoregion
which supports miombo woodland, grasslands, subsistence agricultural land, and peatland …

Angolan highlands peatlands: Extent, age and growth dynamics

M Lourenco, JM Fitchett, S Woodborne - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The Angolan highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important, supporting peatland
deposits. Peatlands are carbon rich ecosystems and are the largest terrestrial carbon store …

What does the history of Theraphosidae systematics tell us about the future of tarantula taxonomy?

EJ Briggs, CA Hamilton - Frontiers in Arachnid Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Systematics provides the foundational knowledge about the units of biodiversity, ie, species,
and how we classify them. The results of this discipline extend across Biology and can have …

Integrative taxonomic analysis of new collections from the central Angolan highlands resolves the taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats on a continental scale

PJ Taylor, E Strydom, L Richards… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ten years ago, the genus-level and species-level taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats was
in a state of flux. In spite of advances in the past decade, gaps in collecting from species-rich …

A hairy giant among dwarves: Trichopelma grande, a distinct new species of tarantula from Cuba (Araneae: Theraphosidae)

D Ortiz, E Fonseca - Journal of Natural History, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Large size, tropical climate, topographic complexity, and millions of years of isolation have
turned the Greater Antillean islands into natural laboratories of evolution. Several groups …

Two new endemic species of Bistriopelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Peru, including a new remarkable horned tarantula

M Nicoletta, JC Chaparro… - European …, 2020 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
Abstract The spider genus Bistriopelma Kaderka, 2015 is endemic to Peru and includes
three species known to date: Bistriopelma lamasi Kaderka, 2015, B. matuskai Kaderka, 2015 …