Can anyone help me about the effects of luminance on the efficiency of light trapping of nocturnal flying insects?

Luminance is the amount of reflected light on a given environment. Artificial high (or low) luminance (or illumination??) has any effect on the capture of nocturnal flying insects with light...

08 September 2019 4,779 3 View

How to determine the individual pederin content of Paederus rove beetles?

I need to determine the content of pederin in the brazilian species of Paederus rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). What the best method? Can I estimate the content analysis in lesioned...

04 May 2014 9,757 1 View

What color do bees see?

In my experiments, bees of the tribe Euglossini prefered less the colors red and green. Red is invisible to bees. How about green? They can see the green color? How to explain this result? I used...

07 August 2013 2,433 17 View

What is the best material to make an artificial flower in order to study color preference by bees?

I work with euglossini bees and a intend to know the color preference by them. I am thinking of using artificial flowers, but what is the best material that reflects light like flowers?

11 December 2012 9,627 14 View

Would fecal samples stored at -20C for over a year impact metagenomic analysis?

Dear All, I have access to some rodent fecal samples that have been stored at -20C instead of -80C. Anyone have experience with the impact of stowage condition on comparative metagenomic analysis...

01 March 2021 2,512 1 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

Please help in identification of this insect?

This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.

22 February 2021 5,907 11 View

Purification of proteins from baculovirus-infected insect cells?

18 February 2021 6,665 6 View

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...

16 February 2021 7,097 3 View

How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View