A review of extensive variation in the design of pitfall traps and a proposal for a standard pitfall trap design for monitoring ground‐active arthropod biodiversity

GR Brown, IM Matthews - Ecology and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
To understand change in global biodiversity patterns requires large‐scale, long‐term
monitoring. The ability to draw meaningful comparison across studies is severely hampered …

Pitfall traps: A review of methods for estimating arthropod abundance

RR Hohbein, CJ Conway - Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pitfall traps are commonly used in diet studies for insectivorous and omnivorous wildlife.
Pitfall trap methodologies and designs vary considerably among studies and investigators …

Routes and rates of bacterial dispersal impact surface soil microbiome composition and functioning

KE Walters, JK Capocchi, MBN Albright, Z Hao… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent evidence suggests that, similar to larger organisms, dispersal is a key driver of
microbiome assembly; however, our understanding of the rates and taxonomic composition …

Local‐and landscape‐scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot

BJ Adams, E Li, CA Bahlai, EK Meineke… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Local community structure is shaped by processes acting at local and landscape scales. The
relative importance of drivers operating across different spatial scales is difficult to test …

Local and landscape drivers of arthropod abundance, richness, and trophic composition in urban habitats

SM Philpott, J Cotton, P Bichier, RL Friedrich… - Urban …, 2014 - Springer
Urban green spaces, such as forest fragments, vacant lots, and community gardens, are
increasingly highlighted as biodiversity refuges and are of growing interest to conservation …

[HTML][HTML] Arthropod-based biotic integrity indices: A novel tool for evaluating the ecological condition of native forests in the Azores archipelago

N Tsafack, S Lhoumeau, A Ros-Prieto, L Navarro… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Island ecosystems are experiencing a significant decline in biodiversity, with forest
biodiversity being particularly affected by several biodiversity erosion drivers. This alarming …

Comparative performance and complementarity of four sampling methods and arthropod preference tests from human and porcine remains at the Forensic …

KG Schoenly, NH Haskell, RD Hall… - Journal of Medical …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Comparative performance and complementarity tests of four arthropod sampling methods
(aerial netting, hand collection, pitfall traps, and sticky traps), used by forensic entomologists …

Pitfalls and preservatives: a review

MJ Skvarla, JL Larson… - The Journal of the …, 2014 - journal.lib.uoguelph.ca
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Abundance and diversity of soil arthropods in olive grove ecosystem (Portugal): Effect of pitfall trap type

SAP Santos, JE Cabanas, JA Pereira - European Journal of Soil Biology, 2007 - Elsevier
Soil arthropod biodiversity is an indicator of soil quality and can be studied using pitfall
trap**. In this research, olive grove edaphic fauna was assessed at different sampling …

[PDF][PDF] A comparison of the pitfall trap, Winkler extractor and Berlese funnel for sampling ground-dwelling arthropods in tropical montane cloud forests

TK Sabu, RT Shiju, KV Vinod… - Journal of Insect …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Little is known about the ground-dwelling arthropod diversity in tropical montane cloud
forests (TMCF). Due to unique habitat conditions in TMCFs with continuously wet substrates …