Tropical studies traditionally describe insect diversity variation throughout the year. The
temporally structured responses of insect assemblages to climate seasonality vary across …

Land use changes represent one of the leading causes of terrestrial biodiversity loss,
particularly in tropical ecosystems. In Brazil, a country that encompasses six distinct biomes …

In this guide we present taxonomic keys for the 12 subfamilies and 117 genera of ants
known to occur in Brazil, along with an illustrated glossary of technical terms. The …

Research findings in natural sciences need to be comparable and reproducible to effectively
improve our understanding of ecological and behavioural patterns. In this sense, knowledge …

Abstract The Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot, and myrmecologists broadly study its
numerous habitats. Even so, much of its biodiversity remains to be discovered, and the …

Australia's monsoonal (seasonal) tropics are a global centre of ant diversity, but are largely
unrecognised as such because the vast majority of its species are undescribed. Here we …

Abstract The Atlantic Forest is the third largest biome in Brazil, the most sampled, and has
the second highest diversity of ant species described. However, these data are spatially very …

Conilon coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner) is an important crop in Brazil, and
this culture is widely grown in Espírito Santo State. Intercrop** this species has been …

The Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor (PNSD), renowned for its remarkable biodiversity,
is a conservation unit of the Amazon biome situated at the westernmost limit of the Brazilian …

Ants represent one of the most diverse and ecologically important group of insects in tropical
ecosystems, including in highly threatened ones such as the Brazilian Cerrado. Yet, a …