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Long-term impact of agriculture on the survival of wood ants of the Formica rufa group (Formicidae)
The impact of agriculture on wood ants of the Formica rufa group was investigated in a small-scale agricultural landscape with many woodland...
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The gut epithelium from feeding to fasting in the predatory soil mite Pergamasus longicornis (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae): one tissue, two roles
A review of acarine gut physiology based on published narratives dispersed over the historical international literature is given. Then, in an...
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Baro-Akobo River Basin Wetlands: Livelihoods and Sustainable Regional Land Management (Ethiopia)
The Baro-Akobo system from Ethiopia, along with a major tributary the Sobat from South Sudan, contributes 48 % of the flow of the White Nile where...
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Sustainable Use of Papyrus from Lake Victoria, Kenya
Cyperus papyrus-dominated wetlands in eastern and southern Africa are important for millions of people because of their...
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Freshwater Marshes and Swamps
Freshwater swamps and marshes comprise a large variety of nontidal forested and non-forested wetlands. They have hydric soils and do not accumulate...
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Cyperus papyrus
Papyrus sedge in-situ habit
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Nest-building in ants Formica exsecta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Representatives of the subgenus Coptoformica build composite aboveground nests in much the same manner as red wood ants do. However, despite the...
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Kilombero Valley Floodplain (Tanzania)
The Kilombero floodplain at 300 m asl is one of the largest wetlands in Africa. Its headwaters originate about 40 km north of Lake Nyasa. The...
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Earth Observation Methods for Wetlands: Overview
At local to global scales, wetlands can be observed, characterized, mapped, and monitored using a diverse range of ground, airborne, and spaceborne...
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Evidence for a Nest Defense Pheromone in Bald-Faced Hornets, Dolichovespula Maculata, and Identification of Components
In eusocial insects like Bald-faced hornets, Dolichovespula maculata , nest defense is essential because nests contain a large number of protein-rich...
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Interaction of ants with aphid enemies: Do inexperienced ants specializing in honeydew collection recognize aphidophages at their first contact?
Honeydew collectors of Formica pratensis taken from the nature (control) and laboratory-reared “naïve” ants, which had never met either “mature”...
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The Use of Weaver Ants in the Management of Fruit Flies in Africa
Generalist predators such as the weaver ant, Oecophylla longinoda (Latreille), play an important role as biological control agents in West African...
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The Mayas wetlands of the Dinder and Rahad: tributaries of the Blue Nile Basin (Sudan)
Mayas wetlands forms an important ecological zone in the arid and semiarid Sodano – Saharan region in Dinder and Rahad basins. They are the most...
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Wetlands of the World
The Wetland Book is a first “port-of-call” reference work on the description, distribution and conservation issues for wetlands globally. The...
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African wetlands and their seasonal use by wild and domestic herbivores
African wetlands include dambos or headwater valley grasslands in the upper regions of catchments, circular pan grasslands in drainage sumps, linear...
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A technological approach to the description of group foraging in the ant Myrmica rubra
Group foraging in Myrmica rubra ants is considered as a cyclic process in which transition from one phase to another is determined by summation of...
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Available space, symbiotic fungus and colony brood influence excavation and lead to the adjustment of nest enlargement in leaf-cutting ants
The size of underground ant nests positively correlates with their worker number, suggesting that during colony growth, workers respond to increased...
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Autoinducer-2 signaling is involved in regulation of stress-related genes of Deinococcus radiodurans
Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) serves as a quorum-sensing signaling molecule that mediates both intraspecies and interspecies communication among bacteria, and...
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Biomorphology: Current status and prospects
On the basis of the concepts of I.G. Serebryakov (founder of the science of plant life forms, ecological morphology) and an analysis of current data,...