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Diversity, Volume 10, Issue 3

September 2018 - 55 articles

Cover Story: The nudibranch, Phyllodesmium magnum Rudman, 1991, is one of several sea slug species that have been recently recorded south of their previously known distribution limit on the Australian east coast. Sea slugs provide a useful target group for monitoring shifts in distribution driven by warming conditions. With many colourful species, they are a popular target for citizen scientist monitoring programs, such as the Sea Slug Census, from which several of these new records have been obtained. View this paper.
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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,156 Views
10 Pages

18 September 2018

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is located in northwestern South Africa and extends northeastward into Botswana. The park lies largely within the southern Kalahari Desert ecosystem where the Auob and Nassob rivers reach their confluence. Although these...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,867 Views
11 Pages

17 September 2018

Pteropus griseus (gray flying fox) is a species of Old World fruit bat that is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Data Deficient. The species is found on small islands in the Lesser Sundas and Sulawesi, and is ende...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,707 Views
33 Pages

A Tribute to Guillermo (Willy) Kuschel (1918–2017)

  • Rolf G. Oberprieler,
  • Christopher H. C. Lyal,
  • Kimberi R. Pullen,
  • Mario Elgueta,
  • Richard A. B. Leschen and
  • Samuel D. J. Brown

14 September 2018

This tribute commemorates the life and work of Guillermo (Willy) Kuschel, who made substantial contributions to the understanding of weevil systematics, evolution and biology. Willy was born in Chile in 1918 and studied philosophy, theology and biolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,493 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2018

Knowing how adaptation shapes morphological evolution is fundamental to understanding the processes that promote biological diversity. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the effects of adaptive radiations on phenotypic diversity, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,235 Views
13 Pages

4 September 2018

Oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) is a flowering plant that belongs to the mint family (Lamiaceae). It is used as a culinary herb and is often commercialized as a fine powder or a mixture of small fragments of dried leaves, which makes morphological reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,788 Views
18 Pages

4 September 2018

There is increasing evidence of poleward migration of a broad range of taxa under the influence of a warming ocean. However, patchy research effort, the lack of pre-existing baseline data, and taxonomic uncertainty for some taxa means that unambiguou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,151 Views
16 Pages

30 August 2018

Global loss of biodiversity is occurring at an alarming rate and is a major issue in current times. Long-term studies offer the possibility to analyse changes in biodiversity and allow assessments of anthropogenic interventions in ecosystems. At pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,746 Views
14 Pages

Assessment of Structural and Functional Diversity of Mollusc Assemblages within Vermetid Bioconstructions

  • Luigia Donnarumma,
  • Roberto Sandulli,
  • Luca Appolloni,
  • José Luis Sánchez-Lizaso and
  • Giovanni Fulvio Russo

28 August 2018

Dendropoma lebeche is a prosobranch gastropod belonging to the family Vermetidae, which calcifies its shell on hard substrates in dense aggregates, forming biogenic constructions along the western Mediterranean intertidal habitat. It is an important...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,088 Views
30 Pages

23 August 2018

The Entiminae are broad-nosed weevils constituting the most diverse subfamily of Curculionidae, with over 50 tribes. We performed Bayesian and Maximum Parsimony combined phylogenetic analyses with the main objective of testing higher-level relationsh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,016 Views
8 Pages

20 August 2018

As global climate change causes population declines across numerous taxa, it becomes critical to understand the specific pathway by which climatic and anthropogenic factors influence population size. Water availability is a key environmental conditio...

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