Mapping mycological ignorance – checklists and diversity patterns of fungi known for West Africa by Meike Piepenbring, Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Jean Evans I. Codjia, Carola Glatthorn, Paul Kirk, Yalemwork Meswaet, David Minter, Boris Armel Olou, Kai Reschke, Marco Schmidt, Nourou Soulemane Yorou

“…According to data available in literature, knowledge on fungal richness ranges from 19 species (Guinea Bissau) to 1595 (Sierra Leone). In estimating existing species diversity, richness estimators and the Hawksworth 6:1 fungus to plant species ratio were used. …”
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The Grecian anomalous blue Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) aroaniensis (Brown, 1976) (Lepidoptera: Lycaneidae) discovered in Croatia, at the north-western edge of its distribution by Toni Koren, Boris Lauš

“…New localities for the three species, P. admetus, P. damon, and P. ripartii, were also recorded, extending the range of the latter two species. …”
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Global Dynamics of Discrete Competitive Models with Large Intrinsic Growth Rates by Chunqing Wu, Jing-an Cui

“…The global dynamics of discrete competitive model of Lotka-Volterra type with two species is considered. Earlier works have shown that the unique positive equilibrium is globally attractive under the assumption that the intrinsic growth rates of the two competitive species are less than 1+ln 2, and further the unique positive equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable under the stronger condition that the intrinsic growth rates of the two competitive species are less than or equal to 1. …”
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Flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by Danielle Sprague, Joseph E. Funderburk, Andrea Lucky

“…The official common name established by the Entomological Society of America for this species is flower thrips, although the name flower thrips is often applied generically to the numerous species in the genus Frankliniella that inhabit flowers. …”
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Contribution à la ré-évaluation de l’aire de répartition du singe à queue de soleil (Cercopithecus solatus) by Peggy Motsch, Guillaume Le Flohic, Jeremy Leclercq, Jean-Paul Gonzalez

“…To date, little information is available on this cryptic and rare species. To overcome the lack of studies on this species, the ECOSOL project (ECOlogy of C. …”
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Subterranean Pitfall Traps: Is It Worth Including Them in Your Ant Sampling Protocol? by Renata Pacheco, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

“…Sampling duration, soil depth, and sprinkling vegetal oil around traps all tended to affect the number of species found in subterranean traps. Sixteen percent of the species collected in subterranean traps were unique, and most of these had cryptobiotic morphology (i.e., were truly hypogaeic species). …”
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Flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by Danielle Sprague, Joseph E. Funderburk, Andrea Lucky

“…The official common name established by the Entomological Society of America for this species is flower thrips, although the name flower thrips is often applied generically to the numerous species in the genus Frankliniella that inhabit flowers. …”
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Evidence for Interspecific Brood Parasite Detection and Removal in Burying Beetles by Ashlee N. Smith, Mark C. Belk

“…We tested whether brood parasitism could be successful between two co-occurring species of burying beetles, Nicrophorus guttula and Nicrophorus marginatus, and whether these species exhibit an adaptive response to brood parasitism by detecting and removing parasites. …”
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Expanding the knowledge of Brazilian Gastrotrich biodiversity: Freshwater Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) from Northeastern Brazil by Axell Kou Minowa, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni

“…ABSTRACT Knowledge of neotropical freshwater gastrotrichs, especially in Brazil, has gained momentum in the past decades, with new species being discovered yearly, accumulating in the last 30 years more than 10% of known species worldwide. …”
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Bacteriology Quality of Zobo Drinks Consumed in Some Parts of Osun State, Nigeria by RO Risiquat

“…The bacteria isolated were E coli, Bacillus species, S aureus, S faecalis, proteus species, Enterobacter species, and Klebsiella species. …”
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Bacteriology Quality of Zobo Drinks Consumed in Some Parts of Osun State, Nigeria by RO Risiquat

“…The bacteria isolated were E coli, Bacillus species, S aureus, S faecalis, proteus species, Enterobacter species, and Klebsiella species. …”
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Holocene Bythocytheridae (Ostracoda: Podocopida) from Southwestern Atlantic deep-sea sediments off Brazil. Part 1: tribes Bythocytherini Sars, 1926 and Jonesini Schornikov, 1981 by Cristianini Trescastro Bergue, Marie-Béatrice Forel, Geise de Santana dos Anjos-Zerfass, Simone Nunes Brandão

“…The main purpose of this paper is to present a study of the tribes Bythocytherini Sars, 1926 and Jonesini Schornikov, 1981 through the analysis of 47 sediment samples collected from 12 sites in the Rio Grande Rise and adjacent areas. The 11 species herein recorded are attributed to the genera Bythocythere Sars, 1866 (four species), Bythoceratina Hornibrook, 1952 (two species), Retibythere Schornikov, 1981 (two species), Rhombobythere Schornikov, 1982b (two species), and Ruggieriella Colalongo and Pasini, 1980 (one species). …”
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Diversity of Wild Bees along Elevational Gradient in an Agricultural Area in Central Java, Indonesia by Imam Widhiono, Eming Sudiana, Darsono Darsono

“…We identified 932 individuals from 8 species of wild bee belonging to 3 families. The family Apidae was predominant, with 6 species, while only 1 species was found from each of Megachilidae and Halictidae. …”
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Overwintering of Thrips (Thysanoptera) Under the Bark of the Plane Tree (<i>Platanus</i> x <i>hispanica</i> Mill. ex Münchh.) in Southeastern Poland by Halina Kucharczyk, Marek Kucharczyk, Tomasz Olbrycht

“…Ten species were dendrophilous, among which all Tubuliferan species were fungivorous. …”
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Multispecies occupancy models unravel reduced colonization probabilities in plants from the unique Amazonian cangas by Rafael de Fraga, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira Santos, Valeria da Cunha Tavares, Leonardo Carreira Trevelin, Maurício Takashi Coutinho Watanabe, Leandro Maioli, Samir Rolim, Carolina da Silva Carvalho

“…Species extinction rates have surpassed background rates in the contemporary times, triggering a sixth global mass extinction event. …”
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Mofette Vegetation as an Indicator for Geogenic CO2 Emission: A Case Study on the Banks of the Laacher See Volcano, Vulkaneifel, Germany by Hardy Pfanz, Frank Saßmannshausen, Christiane Wittmann, Benny Pfanz, Annika Thomalla

“…The total number of growing species was highest in low CO2 soils (max. 17 species per m2) and lowest at high CO2-emitting sites (one species per m2). …”
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Ethnobotanical Study on Wild Edible Plants in Metema District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia by Getinet Masresha, Yirgalem Melkamu, Getnet Chekole Walle

“…Most (88.64%) of these plant species were found in the wild habitat. Fabaceae and Moraceae accounted for higher proportion of edible plant species. …”
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Polymorphism of CLE gene sequences in potato by M. S. Gancheva, M. R. Losev, A. A. Gurina, L. O. Poliushkevich, I. E. Dodueva, L. A. Lutova

“…In total, we identified 332 CLE genes in the analyzed potato species: from 40 to 43 genes of this family for each potato species. …”
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Bryophytes as Indicators of Disturbance in One of the Last Remnants of the Mountain Forests of El Oro Province, Ecuador by Ángel Benítez, Richard Nagua, Jefferson Medina, Gregorio Lapo, Erika Yangua-Solano, Rolando Andrade-Hidalgo

“…This study confirms that forest disturbance is a key factor in determining not only the number of species but also the composition of bryophyte species. …”
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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests by Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar, Juan Camilo Ríos-Orjuela, Andrew J. Crawford, David C. Cannatella, Rebecca D. Tarvin

“…This species inhabits lowland forests from 0–260 m a.s.l. …”
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