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  • A global database of ant species abundances 
    Bishop, Tom R.; Gibb, Heloise; Dunn, Rob R.; Sanders, Nathan J.; Grossman, Blair F.; Photakis, Manoli; Abril, Silvia; Agosti, Donat; Andersen, Alan N.; Angulo, Elena; Armbrecht, Inge; Arnan, Xavier; Baccaro, Fabricio B.; Boulay, Raphael; Bruhl, Carsten; Castracani, Christina; Cerda, Xim; Del Toro, Israel; Delsinne, Thibaut; Diaz, Mireia; Donoso, David A.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Enriquez, Martha L.; Fayle, Tom M.; Feener (Jnr), Donald H.; Fisher, Brain L.; Fisher, Robert N.; Fritzpatrick, Matthew C.; Gomez, Crisanto; Gotelli, Nicholas J.; Gove, Aaron; Grasso, Donato A.; Groc, Sarah; Guanard, Benoit; Gunawardene, Nihara; Heterick, Brain; Hoffman, Benjamin; Janda, Milan; Jenkins, Clinton; Kaspari, Michae; Klimes, Petr; Lach, Lori; Laeger, Thomas; Lattke, John; Leponce, Maurice; Lessard, Jean-Philippe; Longino, John; Lucky, Andrea; Lessard, Jean-Philippe; Luke, Sarah H.; Majer, Jonathan; McGlynn, Terrence P.; Menke, Sean; Mezger, Dirk; Mori, Alessandra; Moses, Jimmy; Munyai, Caswell Thinandavha; Pacheco, Renata; Paknia, Omid; Pearce-Duvet, Jessica; Pfeiffer, Martin; Philpott, Stacy M.; Resasco, Julian; Retana, Javier; Silva, Rogerio R.; Sorger, Magdalena D.; Souza, Jorge; Suarez, Andrew; Tista, Melanie; Vasconelos, Heraldo L.; Vonshak, Merav; Weiser, Michael D.; Yates, Michelle; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2017-03)
    What forces structure ecological assemblages? A key limitation to general insights about assemblage structure is the availability of data that are collected at a small spatial grain (local assemblages) and a large spatial ...
  • Global dispersal and diversification in ground beetles of the subfamily Carabinae 
    Sota, Teiji; Takami, Yasuoki; Ikeda, Hiroshi; Liang, Hongbin; Karagyan, Gayane; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Hori, Michio (Elsevier, 2022-02)
    The origin and diversification process of lineages of organisms that are currently widely distributed among continents is an interesting subject for exploring the evolutionary history of global species diversity. Ground ...
  • Global distribution patterns provide evidence of niche shift by the introduced African dung beetle Digitonthophagus gazella 
    Noriega, Jorge Ari; Floate, Kevin D.; Genier, Francois; Reid, Chris A.M.; Kohlmann, Bert; Horgan, Finbarr G.; Davis, Adrian L.V.; Forgie, Shaun A.; Aguilar, Carlos; Ibarra, Mario G.; Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando; Ziani, Stefano; Lobo, Jorge M. (Wiley, 2020-10)
    The establishment of cattle ranches throughout the world has prompted the release of dung beetles as biological control agents that reduce pasture fouling and control dung‐breeding flies. One of these beetles, Digitonthophagus ...
  • The global diversity of Deladenus siricidicola in native and non-native populations 
    Fitza, Katrin N.E.; Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Lombardero, Maria J.; Ayres, Matthew P.; Krivak-Tetley, Flora E.; Ahumada, Rodrigo; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Wingfield, Michael J.; Slippers, Bernard (Elsevier, 2019-05)
    The nematode Deladenus siricidicola is the primary biological control agent of Sirex noctilio, a globally invading woodwasp pest of Pinus species. Preliminary studies on the diversity of populations of D. siricidicola ...
  • Global dung beetle response to tropical forest modification and fragmentation : a quantitative literature review and meta-analysis 
    Nichols, E.; Larsen, T.; Spector, S.; Davis, Adrian L.V.; Escobar, Federico; Favila, M.; Vulinec, K.; Scarabaeinae Research Network (Elsevier, 2007-06)
    Although insects are crucial for maintaining ecosystem function, our understanding of their overall response to human activity remains limited. This is no less true of dung-burying beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: ...
  • Global patterns of functional trait variation along aridity gradients in bats 
    Conenna, Irene; Santini, Luca; Rocha, Ricardo; Monadjem, Ara; Cabeza, Mar; Russo, Danilo (Wiley, 2021-05)
    AIM : Our understanding of the biological strategies employed by species to cope with challenges posed by aridity is still limited. Despite being sensitive to water loss, bats successfully inhabit a wide range of arid ...
  • Global patterns of seasonal acclimatization in avian resting metabolic rates 
    McKechnie, Andrew E.; Noakes, Matthew J.; Smit, Ben (Springer, 2015-12)
    The adjustment of resting metabolic rates represents an important component of avian seasonal acclimatization, with recent studies revealing substantial differences between summer and winter in birds from a wide range ...
  • A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems 
    Kennedy, Christina M.; Lonsdorf, Eric; Neel, Maile C.; Williams, Neal M.; Ricketts, Taylor H.; Winfree, Rachel; Bommarco, Riccardo; Brittain, Claire; Burley, Alana L.; Cariveau, Daniel; Carvalheiro, Luísa G.; Chacoff, Natacha P.; Cunningham, Saul A.; Danforth, Bryan N.; Dudenhöffer, Jan-Hendrik; Elle, Elizabeth; Gaines, Hannah R.; Garibaldi, Lucas A.; Gratton, Claudio; Holzschuh, Andrea; Isaacs, Rufus; Javorek, Steven K.; Jha, Shalene; Klein, Alexandra M.; Krewenka, Kristin; Mandelik, Yael; Mayfield, Margaret M.; Morandin, Lora A.; Neame, Lisa A.; Otieno, Mark; Park, Mia; Potts, Simon G.; Rundlof, Maj; Saez, Agustin; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Taki, Hisatomo; Viana, Blandina Felipe; Westphal, Catrin; Wilson, Julianna K.; Greenleaf, Sarah S.; Kremen, Claire (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-05)
    Bees provide essential pollination services that are potentially affected both by local farm management and the surrounding landscape. To better understand these different factors, we modelled the relative effects of ...
  • A global reference database of crowdsourced cropland data collected using the Geo-Wiki platform 
    Bayas, Juan Carlos Laso; Lesiv, Myroslava; Waldner, François; Schucknecht, Anne; Duerauer, Martina; See, Linda; Fritz, Steffen; Fraisl, Dilek; Moorthy, Inian; McCallum, Ian; Perger, Christoph; Danylo, Olha; Defourny, Pierre; Gallego, Javier; Gilliams, Sven; Akhtar, Ibrar ul Hassan; Baishya, Swarup Jyoti; Baruah, Mrinal; Bungnamei, Khangsembou; Campos, Alfredo; Changkakati, Trishna; Cipriani, Anna; Das, Krishna; Das, Keemee; Das, Inamani; Davis, Kyle Frankel; Hazarika, Purabi; Johnson, Brian Alan; Malek, Ziga; Molinari, Monia Elisa; Panging, Kripal; Pawe, Chandra Kant; Perez-Hoyos, Ana; Sahariah, Parag Kumar; Sahariah, Dhrubajyoti; Saikia, Anup; Saikia, Meghna; Schlesinger, Peter; Seidacaru, Elena; Singha, Kuleswar; Wilson, John W. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-09-26)
    A global reference data set on cropland was collected through a crowdsourcing campaign using the Geo- Wiki crowdsourcing tool. The campaign lasted three weeks, with over 80 participants from around the world reviewing ...
  • The global spread of misinformation on spiders 
    Mammola, Stefano; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Arabesky, Valeria; Barrales-Alcala, Diego Alejandro; Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn; Benamu, Marco Antonio; Bird, Tharina; Bogomolova, Maria; Cardoso, Pedro; Chatzaki, Maria; Cheng, Ren-Chung; Chu, Tien-Ai; Classen-Rodríguez, Leticia M.; Cupic, Iva; Dhiya’ulhaq, Naufal Urfi; Picard, André-Philippe Drapeau; El-Hennawy, Hisham K.; Elverici, Mert; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Ganem, Zeana; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Gonnye, Naledi T.; Hacala, Axel; Haddad, Charles R.; Ho, Tammy Ai Tian; Into, Thanakorn; Isaia, Marco; Jayaraman, Dharmaraj; Karuaera, Nanguei; Khalap, Rajashree; Khalap, Kiran; Kim, Dongyoung; Korhonen, Tuuli; Kralj-Fiser, Simona; Land, Heidi; Lin, Shou-Wang; Loboda, Sarah; Lowe, Elizabeth; Lubin, Yael; Martínez, Alejandro; Mbo, Zingisile; Milicic, Marija; Kioko, Grace Mwende; Nanni, Veronica; Norma-Rashid, Yusoff; Nwankwo, Daniel; Painting, Christina J.; Pang, Aleck; Pantini, Paolo; Pavlek, Martina; Pearce, Richard; Petcharad, Booppa; Petillon, Julien; Raberahona, Onjaherizo Christian; Russo, Philip; Saarinen, Joni A.; Segura-Hernandez, Laura; Sentenska, Lenka; Uhl, Gabriele; Walker, Leilani; Warui, Charles M.; Wisniewski, Konrad; Zamani, Alireza; Chuang, Angela; Scott, Catherine (Cell Press, 2022-08)
    In the internet era, the digital architecture that keeps us connected and informed may also amplify the spread of misinformation. This problem is gaining global attention, as evidence accumulates that misinformation may ...
  • Global variation in avian metabolic rates and the slow pace of life of tropical birds 
    McKechnie, Andrew E. (Wiley, 2015-03)
    No abstract available.
  • Glucocorticoid stress responses of reintroduced tigers in relation to anthropogenic disturbance in Sariska Tiger Reserve in India 
    Bhattacharjee, Subhadeep; Kumar, Vinod; Chandrasekhar, Mithileshwari; Malviya, Manjari; Ganswindt, Andre; Ramesh, Krishnamurthy; Sankar, Kalyanasundaram; Umapathy, Govindhaswamy; Senthilkumaran, Balasubramanian (Public Library of Science, 2015-06-10)
    Tiger (Panthera tigris), an endangered species, is under severe threat from poaching, habitat loss, prey depletion and habitat disturbance. Such factors have been reported causing local extermination of tiger populations ...
  • Gnrh mRNA expression in the brain of cooperatively breeding female Damaraland mole-rats 
    Voigt, Cornelia; Bennett, Nigel Charles (BioScientifica Ltd, 2017-04)
    The Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) is a eusocial, subterranean rodent, in which breeding is limited to a single reproductive pair within each colony. Non-reproductive females, while in the confines of the colony, ...
  • Go East for better honey bee health : Apis cerana is faster at hygienic behavior than A. mellifera 
    Lin, Zheguang; Page, Paul; Li, Li; Qin, Yao; Zhang, Yingying; Hu, Fuliang; Neumann, Peter; Zheng, Huoqing; Dietemann, Vincent (Public Library of Science, 2016-09-08)
    The poor health status of the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, compared to its Eastern counterpart, Apis cerana, is remarkable. This has been attributed to lower pathogen prevalence in A. cerana colonies and to their ...
  • Goose barnacles hitchhike on satellite-tracked southern elephant seals 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; McIntyre, Trevor; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (Springer, 2009-09)
    Goose barnacles (Lepas australis) attached to satellite-relay data loggers were carried by three southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Marion Island. Their movements across the Polar Frontal Zone are presented, ...
  • Goose barnacles on seals and a penguin at Gough Island 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (Zoological Society of Southern Africa, 2010-04)
    During a survey of seals in September and October 2009 at Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean, we recorded goose barnacles (Lepas australis) attached to the pelage of two of the 12 elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) inspected ...
  • Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3) transmission by three soft scale insect species (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with notes on their biology 
    Kruger, Kerstin; Douglas-Smit, Nicoleen (Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 2013)
    Several mealybug and two soft scale species have been identified as vectors of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3), the most abundant of the Closteroviridae associated with grapevine leafroll disease. To ...
  • Grazing behaviour of the giraffe in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe 
    Seeber, Peter Andreas; Ndlovu, Honestly T.; Duncan, Patrick; Ganswindt, Andre (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
    No abstract available.
  • Grazing during the grassland greenup period promotes plant species richness in alpine grassland in winter pastures 
    Wei, Wanrong; Zhen, Qiaoyan; Deng, Jia; Yue, Hanlin; Qin, Mingsen; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-16)
    Although grazing is the most common use of grassland, the ecological function of grassland far exceeds its productivity. Therefore, the protection of plant diversity is of the utmost importance and cannot be ignored. ...
  • Grazing lawns and overgrazing in frequently grazed grass communities 
    Hempson, Gareth P.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Lehmann, Caroline E.R.; Archibald, Sally (Wiley Open Access, 2022-09)
    Frequent grazing can establish high forage value grazing lawns supporting high grazer densities, but can also produce overgrazed grass communities with unpalatable or low grass basal cover, supporting few grazers. Attempts ...