The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth’s biodiversity: their terrestrial, freshwater
and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including almost all …

Metazoan metabarcoding is emerging as an essential strategy for inventorying biodiversity,
with diverse projects currently generating massive quantities of community-level data. The …

Our ability to predict the identity of future invasive alien species is largely based upon knowledge
of prior invasion history. Emerging alien species—those never encountered as aliens …

Understanding energy and material fluxes through ecosystems is central to many questions
in global change biology and ecology 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 . Ecosystem …

Human-mediated transport beyond biogeographic barriers has led to the introduction and
establishment of alien species in new regions worldwide. However, we lack a global picture of …

… & ECONOMO, EP 2015: Additions to the checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of
… & ECONOMO, EP 2016: Visualizing and interacting with large-volume biodiversity data using …

The rise of informatics has presented new opportunities for analyzing, visualizing, and
interacting with data across the sciences, and biodiversity science is no exception. Recently, …

Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem
functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their …

Ecology Letters (2010) Abstract Biogeographical, evolutionary and ecological processes
interact to regulate patterns in metacommunities. However, as there are few quantitative …

Ants are a dominant family of eusocial terrestrial insects with a diversity of ecologies, lifestyles
and morphologies. Ant diet preferences range from strict carnivory through omnivory to …