What top scientific journals are accepting papers in insects Bioacoustics?

Dear colleagues, I have not bad material in bioacoustics of grasshoppers. Please, recommend some good scientific j. for publication. Please, recommend on your own experience!!! Thanks, Andrey

10 November 2017 773 1 View

What means Chapter in scientific book ?

Accordingly to Merriam-Webster Chapter "is a main division of a book". One younger colleague from my department put into his cite in RG a separate pages from the popular book (Red Book of the...

04 May 2016 2,727 6 View

Can anybody help me with identification of stick-insect from Borneo?

Dear colleagues, I made photo of this stick insects in a sandy beech of North Borneo at National Park Similajaui. I'm trying not to catch arthropods preferring photos, and I have no PDF of...

31 December 2015 275 10 View

Can anybody help me in identifying this spider from the East Carpathians ridge Beskidy, near Ukrainian, Slovak, Polish border ?

Does anybody help me to identify the spider from the dauber wasp Sceliphron destillatorius breeding camera ? Two of three species I identified, and for other just suppose that it can be from woolf...

08 September 2015 7,771 21 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 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