The Azorean archipelago is a hotspot for bryophyte diversity, hosting over 400 species . Although I am not a botanist, the variety of mosses and liverworts covering the ground and hanging from trees in the native Azorean humid laurisilva forests amazes me. Pico is the second largest island of the […]
Category: ecology
Conservation issues in Southeastern Asia – from the insects’ point of view
Southeast Asia, a hotspot for biodiversity, many endemic to the region. However, insects are also facing a number of threats, including habitat loss, climate change, the use of pesticides, as well as the increasing demand for insects (mostly illegally) sourced from the wild.
Effects of grazing on the invertebrate assemblages in Scottish uplands
The Glen Finglas Projects is a large-scale and long-term experiment investigating the effects of four different grazing regimes, no grazing, high-stock sheep grazing, low-stock sheep grazing, and low-stock sheep mixed with cattle grazing (+ the occasional deer), on Scottish upland ecosystems. I was involved in the arthropod collection and sorting/identification […]
Phenological changes in ground beetles
This was part of my PhD in Scotland. I used the long-term ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) dataset of the UK Environmental Change Network to investigate whether ground beetles start their activity earlier in the spring and cease it later in the autumn over a twenty-year period. A gradual change in […]