Tiny cave snail with muffin-top waistline rolls out of the dark in Laos

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Tagged Adrienne Jochum, biodiversity, biospeleology, cave diversity, cave fauna, diversification, diversity, evolutionary ecology, Gastropoda, Laos, Natural History Museum Bern, new species, new to science, snails, species diversity, speleology, subterranean, Subterranean Biology, taxonomyLeave a comment

November 16, 2020

A new species of tiny cave snail that glistens in the light and has a muffin-top-like bulge, was discovered by Marina Ferrand of the French Club Etude et Exploration des Gouffres et Carrières (EEGC), during the Phouhin Namno caving expedition in Tham Houey Yè cave in Laos in March 2019. The new species, named Laoennea renouardi was described in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Subterranean Biology.

Pensoft – GloBI workflow for FAIR data exchange and indexing of biotic interactions locked within scholarly articles

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July 17, 2020

Pensoft – GloBI workflow for FAIR data exchange and indexing of biotic interactions locked within scholarly articles.

Bee diversity and richness decline as anthropogenic activity increases, confirm scientists

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Tagged bees, biodiversity, bumblebees, conservation, endemic bees, endemic species, habitat degradation, habitat preservation, honey bees, nature conservation, pollinators, species diversityLeave a comment

November 1, 2018

The researchers compared wild bee communities in the tropical dry forest of Mexico living in three habitat conditions: preserved vegetation, agricultural sites and urbanised areas Changes in land use negatively affect bee species richness and diversity, and cause major shifts in species composition, reports a recent study of native wild bees, conducted at the Sierra de […]