For example, plant species harness the energy ... and Resource-Use Species diversity has two primary components: species richness (the number of species in a local community) and species ...

Goetze: Diversity is a much discussed and debated, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural ...

As one travels further away from the equator, for most taxa, the number of species declines. For example, Figure 3 demonstrates the latitudinal richness gradient for richness in ants of the ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, ...