Biodiversity is changing at unprecedented rates, and it is increasingly important that these
changes are quantified through monitoring programmes. Previous recommendations for …

This article reviewed published papers on the use of soil and litter arthropods as biological
indicators of soil quality since the 1970s. Our review shows that soil and litter arthropods are …

Diversity estimates play a key role in ecological assessments. Species richness and
abundance are commonly used to generate complex diversity indices that are dependent on …

Climate and land cover change are driving a major reorganization of terrestrial biotic
communities in tropical ecosystems. In an effort to understand how biodiversity patterns in …

Somos una fundación empresarial patrocinada únicamente por Empresas Polar, dedicada a
programas de utilidad colectiva e interés general con el fin de instalar capacidades en la …

Aim Insects are one of the least studied taxa, with most species lacking basic ecological and
biogeographical information. This problem is particularly acute in the tropics, where low …

The performance of species richness estimators can be highly variable. Evaluating the
accuracy and precision of different estimators for different assemblages is common in the …

This paper studies the factors affecting passerine (Order Passeriformes) species richness in
the Western Maghreb, a region at the southwestern border of the Palearctic reputed as a …

Identifying proper surrogate species or groups is a challenging but critical step in the
application of surrogate species approaches in biodiversity conservation because their …

Documenting changes in distribution is necessary for understanding species' response to
environmental changes, but data on species distributions are heterogeneous in accuracy …