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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects
Grigoropoulou, Afroditi; Hamid, Suhaila Ab; Acosta, Raúl; Akindele, Emmanuel Olusegun; Al‐Shami, Salman A.; Altermatt, Florian; Amatulli, GiuseppeMotivation: Aquatic insects comprise 64% of freshwater animal diversity and are widely used as bioindicators to assess water quality impairment and freshwater ecosystem health, as well as to test ecological hypotheses. Despite their importance, a comprehensive, global database of aquatic insect occurrences for mapping freshwater biodiversity in macroecological studies and applied freshwater research is missing....
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
DNA Barcoding and New Records of Odonates (Insecta: Odonata) from Paraíba State...
Koroiva, Ricardo; Gomes, Vanessa Gabrielle Nóbrega; Vilela, Diogo Silva [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:41:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-03-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Odonates (Insecta: Odonata) are important insects in the food chains of freshwater envi-ronments around the world, being used as a model species for areas of behavior and a...
Dragonflies and damselflies from the west of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Checklist an...
Vilela, Diogo Silva; Koroiva, Ricardo; Tosta, Thiago Henrique Azevedo; Novaes, Marcos Carneiro; Guillermo-Ferreira, RhainerThe knowledge about the richness and distribution of Brazilian dragonflies is still being unveiled. Over the years, inventories, reviews, and descriptions have been made. These contributions, apart from the taxonomic value, also provide valuable data on the occurrence of species and their distributions, which are rarely accompanied by notes about natural history and behavior. Keeping this legacy in mind, we col...
Anuran species composition from Chaco and Cerrado areas in Central Brazil
Santos, Cyntia Cavalcante; Ragalzi, Eric; Valério-Júnior, Cláudio; Koroiva, RicardoHerein, we present an updated inventory and the variations of frog communities’ composition from five areas of humid Chaco and Cerrado in municipality of Porto Murtinho, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. This municipality is located in an area with three ecoregions: Chaco, Cerrado and Pantanal. Through acoustic and visual nocturnal/diurnal and pitfall evaluations from a period of over five years, we recorded 31...
Checklist of dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of the Amazonas Sta...
Koroiva, Ricardo; Neiss, Ulisses Gaspar; Fleck, Günther; Hamada, NeusaHere we provide a checklist of the odonates from Amazonas state, Brazil. We registered 324 species and 101 genera, making Amazonas the Brazilian state with the most Odonata species recorded. The families with the highest number of species were Coenagrionidae with 32 genera and 101 species, followed by Libellulidae with 28 genera and 100 species and Gomphidae with 12 genera and 45 species. Some regions of Amazon...
A further study on Franciscobasis Machado & Bedê, 2016 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae...
Vilela, Diogo Silva; Koroiva, Ricardo; Cordero-Rivera, Adolfo; Guillermo-Ferreira, RhainerThe genus Franciscobasis Machado & Bedê, 2016 is endemic to the Serra da Canastra National Park in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Two species of Franciscobasis were described simultaneously with the genus description: F. franciscoi and F. sonia, the latter described only from females. Through morphological and molecular analysis, we investigated if F. sonia may represent the young female of F. franciscoi. Resultin...
Enzimas e bactérias lignocelulolíticas do trato digestivo de larvas de Stenochi...
Koroiva, RicardoFinanciadora de Estudos e Projetos; The presence of a lignocellulolytic enzyme complex and/or symbiotic microorganisms in the invertebrate guts is an indicative of its ability of using wood as energy source. Despite the microbial involvement in the cellulose digestive processes of some species of aquatic insects, there is a lack of information regarding the importance of microorganisms in the digestive capacity...