Paleoecology of Insects

Dear Colleagues,

Insects comprise the most diverse and evolutionarily successful group of multicellular organisms on the planet, and play a fundamental ecological role in terrestrial and freshwater habitats. They interact with other animals, plants, and their environment—either as an individual or as a community—in diverse and complex, often highly specialized ways.

Insects have a vast fossil record and new taxa are being described continuously from compression fossils in sedimentary rocks or three-dimensionally preserved inclusions in amber. This Special Issue seeks original research and review papers on insect ecology in the geological past. Topics may include (but are not restricted to) eusociality, symbiosis, parasitism, parasitoidism, phoresy, trophic interactions, pollination, herbivory, nutrient recycling, and ecosystem reconstruction based on fossil insects. Contributions on any taxonomic group of insects, ichnofossils, or plant fossils documenting plant–insect interaction are welcome. Papers on paleoecological aspects of spiders, mites, and other arachnids are also invited, as well as taxonomic papers if the taxa presented provide new information on the ecological complexity of a certain paleohabitat/fossil locality.

Dr. Uwe. Kaulfuss
Guest Editor

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