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BioRisk
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A peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly published journal in ecology and biodiversity science. Published by @pensoft.net
Human–wildlife conflict in Ethiopia's Konta Special District manifests through crop damage, livestock depredation, and, to some extent, human attacks and retaliatory killing of wild animals, this study found: doi.org/10.3897/bior...
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Denbiq Wetland in Ethiopia offers diverse ecosystem services, including provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting functions, this study found: doi.org/10.3897/bior...

#ecosystemservices #sustainability #wetlands
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It is important to publish and share research on the conservation risks of climate change! Our Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies of 2008 helped shed light on the recent appearance of the Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) in the UK.

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Butterfly from Southern Europe spotted in UK for first time
Experts have tracked the Southern Small White's expansion northwards through Europe over decades.
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August 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In a new study, Enrique García-Barros of @uam.es estimates the dry body weight of adult male Lepidoptera was estimated from thirteen linear measurements of the wings and body using multivariate regression techniques.

#Lepidoptera #insects

doi.org/10.3897/nl.4...
Refining estimates of dry body weight from linear measurements in adult moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera)
The dry body weight of adult male Lepidoptera was estimated from thirteen linear measurements of the wings and body using multivariate regression techniques. A dataset comprising information from 2,64...
doi.org
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This study offers new knowledge on the ecological and behavioural strategies that support the resilience of ant-fungus mutualisms and provided insights for developing targeted biological control strategies against leaf-cutting ants.

doi.org/10.3897/bior...
The role of grooming in regulating biomass growth of ants and symbiotic fungi under entomopathogenic fungal infection: experiments and mathematical modelling
This study presents an extended mathematical model, originally developed to explore biomass dynamics in Acromyrmex ants and their symbiotic fungus, which has been adapted to investigate biomass growth...
doi.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We got our new Scopus CiteScore and we're happy to report it stands at 2.0, a significant increase from last year's 1.4!

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New Scopus CiteScore for BioRisk
The 2024 Scopus CiteScore for BioRisk has been released, reporting a value of 2.0. Published in early June by Scopus and confirmed by the ARPHA Platform's indexing team, this figure represents a s...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM