In the last decade and a half, advances in genetic sequencing technologies have
revolutionized systematics, transforming the field from studying morphological characters or …

Identifying traits that are associated with success of introduced natural enemies in
establishing and controlling pest insects has occupied researchers and biological control …

Species traits are an essential currency in ecology, evolution, biogeography, and
conservation biology. However, trait databases are unavailable for most organisms …

Abstract The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species underpins much decision-making in
conservation and plays a key role in monitoring the status and trends of biodiversity …

A prominent question in animal research is how the evolution of morphology and ecology
interacts in the generation of phenotypic diversity. Spiders are some of the most abundant …

With the rapid accumulation of biodiversity data, data integration has emerged as a hot topic
in soil ecology. Data integration has indeed the potential to advance our knowledge of …

Existing phenotype ontologies were originally developed to represent phenotypes that
manifest as a character state in relation to a wild-type or other reference. However, these do …

Trait-based approaches are revolutionizing our understanding of high-diversity ecosystems
by providing insights into the principles underlying key ecological processes, such as …

The study of functional diversity (FD) provides ways to understand phenomena as complex
as community assembly or the dynamics of biodiversity change under multiple pressures …

Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the
equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and …