Hermann Staude

May 7, 2024 | nature.com | Mathew Seymour |Tomas Roslin |Muhammad Ashfaq |Valerie Levesque-Beaudin |Belén Bukowski |Torbjørn Ekrem | +13 more

Abstract Global biodiversity gradients are generally expected to reflect greater species replacement closer to the equator. However, empirical validation of global biodiversity gradients largely relies on vertebrates, plants, and other less diverse taxa. Here we assess the temporal and spatial dynamics of global arthropod biodiversity dynamics using a beta-diversity framework.

Mar 21, 2024 | resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mikael Englund |Finnish Museum |Kyung Min Lee |Hermann Staude

INTRODUCTION Despite micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) imaging of dried insect specimens is non-destructive, authentic and minimally invasive, it has been sparsely used in descriptive insect systematics. In this paper, we focus on applying micro-CT imaging to yield diagnostic images in descriptive insect taxonomy in a non-destructive way using rare dried and pinned museum specimens.