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  1. Rethinking Termite Methane Emissions: Does the Mound Environment Matter?
  2. Decadal recovery of fungal but not termite deadwood decay in tropical rainforest
  3. The relative influences of long‐term fire management and woody cover on termite abundance and activity in an Australian tropical savanna
  4. Why are trees hollow? Termites, microbes and tree internal stem damage in a tropical savanna
  5. The challenge of estimating global termite methane emissions
  6. The diversity of social complexity in termites
  7. Quantifying the role of termite decomposition in a mesic savanna
  8. Functional compensation in a savanna scavenger community
  9. Drivers of wood decay in tropical ecosystems: Termites versus microbes along spatial, temporal and experimental precipitation gradients
  10. Shifts in internal stem damage along a tropical precipitation gradient and implications for forest biomass estimation
  11. Effects of land use and soil properties on taxon richness and abundance of soil assemblages
  12. Resolving a heated debate: The utility of prescribed burning as a management tool for biodiversity on lowland heath
  13. Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator
  14. Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates
  15. Termite diversity is resilient to land‐use change along a forest‐cocoa intensification gradient in Ghana, West Africa
  16. Termites have wider thermal limits to cope with environmental conditions in savannas
  17. Earthworm distributions are not driven by measurable soil properties. Do they really indicate soil quality?
  18. The impact of invertebrate decomposers on plants and soil
  19. Spatial structure of rainforest termites: Two matched pioneering cross‐continental case studies
  20. Tourist species bias estimates of extrapolated species density in dispersive taxa: a case study from a litter beetle assemblage in temperate woodland
  21. The Plasticity and Developmental Potential of Termites
  22. Carbon flux and forest dynamics: Increased deadwood decomposition in tropical rainforest tree‐fall canopy gaps
  23. Sharing the burden? Earthworms and woodlice show seasonal complementarity in peak abundances in soil in an oak-beech temperate woodland
  24. Darwin was right, in any given field, the spatial variability of earthworm communities in pastures isn’t driven by measurable soil properties
  25. How are the world's insects doing?
  26. Drought and presence of ants can influence hemiptera in tropical leaf litter
  27. Invertebrates and the complexity of tropical ecosystems
  28. Tropical terrestrial invertebrates—Where to from here?
  29. Ant‐termite interactions: an important but under‐explored ecological linkage
  30. Darker ants dominate the canopy: Testing macroecological hypotheses for patterns in colour along a microclimatic gradient
  31. The oldest known mastotermitids (Blattodea: Termitoidae) and phylogeny of basal termites
  32. Termites can decompose more than half of deadwood in tropical rainforest
  33. Termites help rainforests during droughts.
  34. Suspended dead wood decays very slowly in the tropics.
  35. Termite environmental tolerances are more linked to desiccation than temperature in modified tropical forests
  36. Ant diversity as a direct and indirect driver of pselaphine rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) functional diversity in tropical rainforests, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
  37. Woody encroachment slows decomposition and termite activity in an African savanna
  38. Strong but taxon-specific responses of termites and wood-nesting ants to forest regeneration in Borneo
  39. Symbiogenesis: Beyond the endosymbiosis theory?
  40. Ants are really important scavengers in tropical rain forests
  41. Consistency of effects of tropical-forest disturbance on species composition and richness relative to use of indicator taxa
  42. The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
  43. Patterns and drivers of lichen species composition in a NW-European lowland deciduous woodland complex
  44. No evidence for an elephant-termite feedback loop in Sand Forest, South Africa
  45. Assessing high compositional differences of beetle assemblages across vertical woodland strata in the New Forest, Hampshire, England
  46. Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash – Field Maple woodland
  47. Suppression of savanna ants alters invertebrate composition and influences key ecosystem processes
  48. RevisitingCoptotermes(Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): a global taxonomic road map for species validity and distribution of an economically important subterranean termite genus
  49. Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest
  50. Detection of Mitochondrial COII DNA Sequences in Ant Guts as a Method for Assessing Termite Predation by Ants
  51. Identifying possible sister groups of Cryptocercidae+Isoptera: A combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Dictyoptera
  52. Density-body mass relationships: Inconsistent intercontinental patterns among termite feeding-groups
  53. Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants
  54. Seasonal activity patterns of African savanna termites vary across a rainfall gradient
  55. Describing termite assemblage structure in a Peruvian lowland tropical rain forest: a comparison of two alternative methods
  56. Termites promote soil carbon and nitrogen depletion: Results from an in situ macrofauna exclusion experiment, Peru
  57. Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo
  58. How do different rain forest termite communities differ?
  59. Differences in nest structure influence the importance ofFormica rufagroup (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) wood ant nests as refugia for earthworms
  60. Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) <...
  61. Interactive Effects of Fire, Rainfall, and Litter Quality on Decomposition in Savannas: Frequent Fire Leads to Contrasting Effects
  62. Assessing the Relative Efficiency of Termite Sampling Methods along a Rainfall Gradient in African Savannas
  63. Biodiversity of soil macrofauna in the New Forest: a benchmark study across a national park landscape
  64. Erratum to: Mapping of earthworm distribution for the British Isles and Eire highlights the under-recording of an ecologically important group
  65. Public Participation in Soil Surveys: Lessons from a Pilot Study in England
  66. The pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis: a test with savanna termite assemblages
  67. PRIORITISING SOIL QUALITY ASSESSMENT THROUGH THE SCREENING OF SITES: THE USE OF PUBLICLY COLLECTED DATA
  68. Public goods, public services and by-product mutualism in an ant-fern symbiosis
  69. Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests
  70. Mapping of earthworm distribution for the British Isles and Eire highlights the under-recording of an ecologically important group
  71. Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia
  72. Anthropogenic effects on interaction outcomes: examples from insect-microbial symbioses in forest and savanna ecosystems
  73. Can higher taxa be used as a surrogate for species-level data in biodiversity surveys of litter/soil insects?
  74. From Chemical Risk Assessment to Environmental Quality Management: The Challenge for Soil Protection
  75. Termite Diversity along an Amazon-Andes Elevation Gradient, Peru
  76. Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter
  77. Some basic stuff about termites
  78. Global Biogeography of Termites: A Compilation of Sources
  79. Termite Phylogenetics and Co-cladogenesis with Symbionts
  80. The Effect of Rain Forest Canopy Architecture on the Distribution of Epiphytic Ferns (Aspleniumspp.) in Sabah, Malaysia
  81. Vertical transmission as the key to the colonization of Madagascar by fungus-growing termites?
  82. Fragmentation and pre-existing species turnover determine land-snail assemblages of tropical rain forest
  83. Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?
  84. A six year study of earthworm (Lumbricidae) populations in pasture woodland in southern England shows their responses to soil temperature and soil moisture
  85. Accelerated Species Inventory on Madagascar Using Coalescent-Based Models of Species Delineation
  86. The impact of two arable field margin management schemes on litter decomposition
  87. The value of sown grass margins for enhancing soil macrofaunal biodiversity in arable systems
  88. Structure and conservation of Sri Lankan land-snail assemblages in fragmented lowland rainforest and village home gardens
  89. Termite soldier defence strategies: a reassessment of Prestwich's classification and an examination of the evolution of defence morphology using extended eigenshape analyses of head morphology
  90. Evaluating the efficiency of sampling methods in assessing soil macrofauna communities in arable systems
  91. The role of earthworm communities in soil mineral weathering: a field experiment
  92. Earthworm induced mineral weathering: Preliminary results
  93. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of termites (Isoptera) illuminates key aspects of their evolutionary biology
  94. Response to Lo et al.
  95. Can arable field margins be managed to enhance their biodiversity, conservation and functional value for soil macrofauna?
  96. Scale-specific correlations between habitat heterogeneity and soil fauna diversity along a landscape structure gradient
  97. Termites are extremely social cockroaches
  98. Baseline biodiversity surveys of the soil macrofauna of London’s green spaces
  99. Sampling termites in forest habitats: A reply to Roisin and Leponce
  100. Distribution and genetic variation of Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in Portugal
  101. Assemblages of soil macrofauna across a Scottish land-use intensification gradient: influences of habitat quality, heterogeneity and area
  102. Fungus-growing termites originated in African rain forest
  103. Quantitative extraction of macro-invertebrates from temperate and tropical leaf litter and soil: efficiency and time-dependent taxonomic biases of the Winkler extraction
  104. Comparison of Euryarchaea Strains in the Guts and Food-Soil of the Soil-Feeding Termite Cubitermes fungifaber across Different Soil Types
  105. Environmental and spatial influences upon species composition of a termite assemblage across neotropical forest islands
  106. Evolution of termite functional diversity: analysis and synthesis of local ecological and regional influences on local species richness
  107. Spatial separation of Afrotropical dung beetle guilds: a trade-off between competitive superiority and energetic constraints (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
  108. Termite assemblage collapse along a land-use intensification gradient in lowland central Sumatra, Indonesia
  109. Species composition of termites of the Nyika plateau forests, northern Malawi, over an altitudinal gradient
  110. The evolution of fungus-growing termites and their mutualistic fungal symbionts
  111. Termite diversity across an anthropogenic disturbance gradient in the humid forest zone of West Africa
  112. The termites of the Mayombe Forest Reserve, Congo (Brazzaville): transect sampling reveals an extremely high diversity of ground-nesting soil feeders
  113. Quaternary rainforest refugia in south-east Asia: using termites (Isoptera) as indicators
  114. Feeding groups, lifetypes and the global ecology of termites
  115. Termites and trees: a review of recent advances in termite phylogenetics
  116. Gut content analysis and a new feeding group classification of termites
  117. The effects of altitude and rainfall on the composition of the termites (Isoptera) of the Leuser Ecosystem (Sumatra, Indonesia)
  118. Molecular phylogenetic profiling of prokaryotic communities in guts of termites with different feeding habits
  119. Molecular phylogenetic profiling of prokaryotic communities in guts of termites with different feeding habits
  120. The effect of a soil-feeding termite, Cubitermes fungifaber (Isoptera: Termitidae) on soil properties: termites may be an important source of soil microhabitat heterogeneity in tropical forests
  121. The diversity of beetle assemblages in different habitat types in Sabah, Malaysia
  122. Morphological phylogenetics of termites (Isoptera)
  123. Morphological phylogenetics of termites (Isoptera)
  124. A standard method for sampling termites in rain forest
  125. Global Patterns of Termite Diversity
  126. Termites in Ecosystems
  127. A review of taxonomy and phylogeny of termites
  128. The effect of termite biomass and anthropogenic disturbance on the CH4 budgets of tropical forests in Cameroon and Borneo
  129. Successional response of a tropical forest termite assemblage to experimental habitat perturbation
  130. Termite assemblages, forest disturbance and greenhouse gas fluxes in Sabah, East Malaysia
  131. Respiratory gas exchanges of termites from the Sabah (Borneo) assemblage
  132. Impacts of canopy cover on soil termite assemblages in an agrisilvicultural system in southern Cameroon
  133. Termite species description rates and the state of termite taxonomy
  134. Seasonality of soil termites in a humid tropical forest, Mbalmayo, southern Cameroon
  135. Beetle Species Responses to Tropical Forest Fragmentation
  136. BEETLE SPECIES RESPONSES TO TROPICAL FOREST FRAGMENTATION
  137. Body Size and Energy Use in Termites (Isoptera): The Responses of Soil Feeders and Wood Feeders Differ in a Tropical Forest Assemblage
  138. Methane emission by termites and oxidation by soils, across a forest disturbance gradient in the Mbalmayo Forest Reserve, Cameroon
  139. Trophic structure stability and extinction dynamics of beetles (Coleoptera) in tropical forest fragments
  140. Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modificationin tropical forest
  141. On the respiratory quotient (RQ) of termites (Insecta: Isoptera)
  142. Nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios in termites: an indicator of trophic habit along the gradient from wood-feeding to soil-feeding
  143. A pilot analysis of gut contents in termites from the Mbalmayo Forest Reserve, Cameroon
  144. Carbon flux and diversity of nematodes and termites in Cameroon forest soils
  145. The Diversity, Abundance and Biomass of Termites under Differing Levels of Disturbance in the Mbalmayo Forest Reserve, Southern Cameroon
  146. Large Scale Patterns of Biodiversity: Spatial Variation in Family Richness
  147. On the elevated intestinal pH of higher termites (Isoptera: Termitidae)
  148. The species richness of termites (Isoptera) under differing levels of forest disturbance in the Mbalmayo Forest Reserve, southern Cameroon
  149. Termites live in a pear-shaped world: a response to Platnick
  150. Explaining global termite diversity: productivity or history?
  151. Comparisons of dipteran, hymenopteran and coleopteran parasitoids: provisional phylogenetic explanations
  152. Insect Parasitoids: An Evolutionary Overview
  153. Invertebrates as determinants and indicators of soil quality
  154. Patterns in male mating strategies of the Rhyssini: a holophyletic group of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
  155. "Parasitoid" Species and Assemblages: Convenient Definitions or Misleading Compromises?
  156. Male reproductive behaviour of the parasitoid wasp Lytarmes maculipennis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
  157. Methods for Sampling Termites
  158. The Termite Gut Habitat: Its Evolution and Co-Evolution