Green roofs are promoted as a nature-based approach to mitigate various environmental
issues and provide a variety of ecosystem services. However, establishing and maintaining …

This review synthesizes recent developments in the field of tardigrade biogeography, tracing
back to the origins of Baas Becking's hypothesis that 'everything is everywhere but the …

The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Citizen science databases are increasing in importance as sources of ecological
information, but variability in effort across locations is inherent to such data. Spatially biased …

Understanding large-scale biodiversity patterns and underlying mechanisms during the
formation process is essential for guiding conservation efforts. However, previous studies on …

Organismal biology has been steadily losing fashion in both formal education and scientific
research. Simultaneous with this is an observable decrease in the connection between …

Urbanization and urban landscape characteristics greatly alter plant and animal species
richness and abundances in negative and positive directions. Spiders are top predators …

South America is the fourth largest continent on the planet; its birds, mammals, and
amphibian's biodiversity is relatively well known, but no outright assessment of the continent …

Although spiders constitute a highly diversified group of animals, the knowledge regarding
their geographic distribution (ie, the so-called Wallacean shortfall) and diversity patterns is …

Java and Bali are important as the most populated islands and as economic centres in
Indonesia, and Java is the seat of the national government. Although a series of reports …