@article {1389, title = {Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {2}, year = {2019}, month = {28/02/2019}, pages = {22{\textendash}84}, abstract = {

A list of all known taxa described or recorded from Burmese amber from the published literature up to the end of 2018 is given, along with a comprehensive bibliography. The history of the study of inclusions is summarised, and demonstrates that the number of species has risen exponentially over the past two decades. The first three species were named in 1916 and by the end of 1920 a total of 42 species had been named by T.D.A. Cockerell. Only three more species were named by 1999 though by the end of 2018 the total had risen to an incredible 1,192 species, of which over half were named in the past three years. Some 320 species were named in 2018, the highest number described from one type of amber in any one year in the entire history of amber studies.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.1.5}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.2.1.5}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1332, title = {Increase of insular exotic arthropod diversity is a fundamental dimension of the current biodiversity crisis}, journal = {Insect Conservation and Diversity}, volume = {13}, year = {2020}, month = {16/07/2020}, pages = {508-518}, abstract = {
  1. A dramatic insect decline has been documented on the grasslands and forests of European or North American mainland. Yet, other parts of the world and other ecosystems remain much less studied with unknown patterns.
  2. Using a unique time-series dataset, we investigate recent trends on abundance and richness of arthropods sampled in Azorean native forest over 6\ years (2013\–2018).
  3. We test the hypothesis that biodiversity erosion drivers are changing the diversity and relative species abundance structure (species abundance distribution, SAD) of endemics, native non-endemics and exotic species over time. We also examine temporal trends in abundance for each individual species.
  4. In contrast with mainland studies, we observed no decline in overall arthropod diversity, but a clear increase in the diversity of exotic arthropods and some evidence of a tendency for decreasing abundance for some endemic species. We also document stronger species turnover for exotic species, but no specific changes in the SAD.
  5. We argue that many changes, particularly in unique systems such as islands, will be noticed not at the richness but mostly at compositional level. Special attention should be given to exotic species which are known to be one of the major drivers of biodiversity erosion on islands.
}, keywords = {Azores, Exotic species, invertebrates, Islands, long-term monitoring, sampling standardisation}, issn = {1752-458X, 1752-4598}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12431}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/icad.12431}, author = {Borges, Paulo A. V. and Rigal, Fran{\c c}ois and Ros-Prieto, Alejandra and Cardoso, Pedro} }