Diversity of Fossil and Recent Insect Faunae
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 8022
Special Issue Editors
2. Invertebrate Zoology, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Interests: taxonomic entomology; faunogenesis; insect distribution; beetles of the families Malachiidae; Dasytidae; Byrrhidae; Meloidae; paleoentomology; biogeography; insect role in human life
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Interests: paleoentomology; evolution; phylogeny; systematics; paleobiogeography; paleoenvironment; Mesozoic and Cenozoic insects; quaternary study
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Formation of patterns in species distribution caused by climatic conditions changing in time during a long period is a significant problem today. The environment suffers from the strong impact of climatic variation, which is leading to global trends in the biosphere. The fixation of recent alterations in fauna composition, combined with the advanced study of past periods, could provide us with information allowing us to understand the main trends in faunogenesis and propose a prognosis of future species moving to new territories. Comparison of data gained from late Pleistocene fossils with the data obtained from recent Holocene species is the most productive direction in this sphere. Insect remains in Quaternary deposits have typically been found in temperate and high latitudes and are especially well-preserved in permafrost regions. These fossils are widely used for the reconstruction of past environments. Chitin is poorly preserved in tropical and subtropical regions, although insect diversity and abundance is much greater there.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish research papers related to fossil and recent faunae analysis that demonstrate impact of natural processes to entomocoenoses changes under the climatic conditions of the Pleistocene and Holocene.
We invite the submission of reviews, communications, or original research that may cover a broad range of species distribution analyses focused on how biocoenoses have been formed and are forming under the environmental conditions typical of the period of their occurrence in both the distant and recent past. We also hope to see new ideas for the reconstruction of climate and biocoenoses types of the past that may be formulated on the basis of taphocoenoses species composition specifics. Comparative analysis of species distribution from the Plestocene to the Holocene may offer evidence of species origins, providing us with instruments of recognition of recent faunae formation trends; as such, all papers focusing on this are very welcome. The description of new taxa either from fossil or recent material, extending our knowledge of entomocoenoses specifics, is expected to contribute to the faunogenesis estimation approach and is welcome in our Special Issue.
Some example topics of interest include:
- Species and subspecies distribution, area alteration from the Pleistocene to the Holocene;
- The main trends in insect faunogenesis;
- Taphocoenoses as characteristics of entomocoenoses of the past;
- Changes of taxonomic diversity under influence of climatic condition;
- Impact of endemic and relict species to maintenance of stable state of faunae;
- Fossil history in the description of faunogenesis trends;
- Reconstruction of climate and biocoenoses typical appearance;
- Description of new taxa, either ancient or extant insects;
- Detailed characteristics of the fossil fauna and taxa.
Dr. Sergei Eduardovich Tshernyshev
Dr. Andrei Legalov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- species distribution
- faunogenesis
- taphocoenoses and entomocoenoses specifics
- taxonomic diversity
- endemic and relict taxa
- fossil history
- phylogeny
- palaeoenvironment
- climate and biocoenose reconstruction
- palaeobiogeography
- new taxa
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