Diversity, Volume 17, Issue 8

Although the ultimate drivers of bat fatalities at wind turbines are still not well understood, the foraging behavior of insectivorous bats puts them at increased risk of collision with rotating blades. Wind energy facilities are commonly located in...

Suburban forest patches can have important conservation value for birds. This is a hopeful trend because the extent of urbanization is increasing, many avian populations are declining, and urban areas are where most people interact with wildlife. The...

Understanding how elevation influences forest structure and species composition is crucial for effective conservation in mountainous regions like Nepal, where ecosystems change dramatically over short distances. This study assessed forest dynamics al...

The Dongting Lake wetland is an important habitat for rodents. In order to understand the structural characteristics of rodent communities and the effect of groundwater level on them, this study explored the changes in rodent community structure in f...

Basic and applied research reveals the importance of sea slugs as a source of new bioactive molecules or of still little-known intra/intercellular processes, mainly linked to the highly specialised defensive strategies typical of this group of shell-...

Although 5–20% of global crop production is lost to arthropod damage, current biomonitoring programs are extremely limited. This study evaluates the feasibility of using metabarcoding to assess overall insect diversity and detect pest species i...

Biodiversity is crucial for humankind. It encompasses three main levels: ecosystem, species, and intraspecific genetic diversity. Species consist of populations that exhibit deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) variability, which is a key component of intrasp...

The submerged petrified forest in Sozopol Bay, located along Bulgaria’s southeastern coast in the Black Sea, is an extraordinarily rare natural phenomenon that has remained unexplored in terms of microbial diversity until now. This study focuse...

Leprosy is a chronically infectious disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae, or the more recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis. In the Americas, wild armadillos of the Dasypus genus are natural hosts. A systematic review evalua...

Although deep-water environments make up the world’s largest ecosystem, they are poorly characterized. Lake Baikal, the only freshwater reservoir possessing rich deep-water fauna, offers unique opportunities to examine the evolutionary processe...