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.
Category: insects
Long-term changes in Azorean native forest arthropods
Island biotas are threatened by habitat loss, anthropogenic pollution and climate change, as well as the effects of introduced species. The Azorean Biodiversity Group conducts several projects to assess the impact of these threats on the invertebrate communities in the Azorean archipelago. Most of the projects focus on the fauna […]
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 […]
The Hungarian Harlequin Ladybird Project
“Whenever someone submits a biodiversity record, becomes a different person.” – Said Viktor Markó, with whom I worked with on the Harlequin Ladybirds.
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 […]