The development of easily observable measures of restoration success is essential for
monitoring of the ambitious proposed global restoration targets (eg The Bonn Challenge; …

Determining assembly rules of co-occurring species persists as a fundamental goal in
community ecology. At local scales, the relative importance of environmental filtering vs …

The current study was carried out in the seaward coastal beach environment of Al-Jubail
City, Saudi Arabia, to analyze the rabbit carcass decomposition process, the succession …

Coastal dunes are unique habitats, threatened by human activities. In biogeographical
terms, coastal dunes are habitat islands, being discrete and distinct patches of similar …

Knowing the spatial variation of insect and arachnid assemblages and their relationship with
habitat variables is critical to understand the structure and dynamics of these communities in …

While swamps perform valuable functions in coastal ecosystems, terrestrial invertebrates in
these fragile habitats are poorly known. The aims of this study were to (1) uncover the ant …

The study of foraging dynamics is essential to understanding the way organisms arrange
themselves to reduce the effects of competition in the most diverse natural systems. The …

Ants are good bioindicators of habitats and of their quality in many ecosystems. However,
their interest in the case of coastal dunes remains to be determined because the …

Ants have historically been classified into “functional groups”(FGs) to facilitate their
interpretation as bioindicators. A particularly popular classification scheme is the one …

Ants have been considered useful for bioindication because of their ecological
characteristics. Nonetheless, among the characteristics of a bioindicator group, there must …