Systematics, Ecology and Taxonomy of Collembola
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 20584
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Collembola taxonomy; Collembola systematics; Collembola evolution; Collembola ecology; Collembola ecotoxicology; Collembola behavior
Interests: systematics; biogeography; phylogeny; taxonomy; springtails
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of Diversity entirely focused on springtails.
With about 9300 nominal species distributed in the majority of the terrestrial habitats, springtails (Collembola) are among the most ecologically important members of soil fauna. Even constituting the largest group of wingless hexapods, it is clear that most living species are still to be discovered and described, especially outside Europe. At the same time, gaps on the knowledge of species distribution, size of their populations, ecological needs, susceptibility to anthropic impacts and even potential extinction threats prevent a clear understanding of local and regional soil dynamics and resilience of springtails in face of human activities. Also, with the advent of new molecular techniques, the systematics of Collembola is being reshaped, and several new hypotheses on the internal relationships and evolution of springtails have been proposed in the past decade. All these fields of research have resulted in outstanding published data and provided ground for further studies of this particular and interesting fauna.
This Special Issue is an exciting opportunity to combine and synthesize data on different research fields, and in this publication we are aiming for providing high quality original papers on systematics, ecology and taxonomy of springtails. Reviews and surveys are also welcome, but they need to provide new relevant insights in their respective research areas. We also expect taxonomic papers not dealing with reviews could present further data on the systematics, distribution or conservation of the studied taxa.
Diversity’s team and we kindly invite you to submit a manuscript focused on any of the above topics. If you are interested in this opportunity or have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Dr. Bruno Bellini
Prof. Dr. Wanda Maria Weiner
Dr. Bruna Winck
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Collembola
- soil fauna
- soil dynamics
- ecology
- new species
- taxonomical revisions
- systematics
- phylogeny
- conservation biology
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