The nature of domestication is often misunderstood. Most definitions of the process are
anthropocentric and center on human intentionality, which minimizes the role of …

▪ Abstract Agriculture has evolved independently in three insect orders: once in ants, once in
termites, and seven times in ambrosia beetles. Although these insect farmers are in some …

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

An overview of the phylogeny of the Agaricales is presented based on a multilocus analysis
of a six-gene region supermatrix. Bayesian analyses of 5611 nucleotide characters of rpb1 …

Agriculture is a specialized form of symbiosis that is known to have evolved in only four
animal groups: humans, bark beetles, termites, and ants. Here, we reconstruct the major …

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's
leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis …

The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
exploded the myth of 'the rain forest'as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical …

The diversity and habitat requirements of invertebrates associated with dead wood have
been the subjects of hundreds of studies in recent years but we still know very little about the …

Termites are a clade of eusocial wood-feeding roaches with> 3000 described species.
Eusociality emerged~ 150 million years ago in the ancestor of modern termites, which, since …

Termites normally rely on gut symbionts to decompose organic matter but the
Macrotermitinae domesticated Termitomyces fungi to produce their own food. This transition …