Publications by authors named "Joachim Adis"
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- The study analyzed the arthropod community associated with six Attalea phalerata palm trees in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso during high water conditions in February 2001, using canopy fogging methods.
- A total of 63,657 arthropods were collected, with the most abundant groups being Acari, Coleoptera, and Psocoptera, showcasing a rich diversity across 25 orders.
- The research found that the hydrological regime, particularly the flood pulse, significantly influences both the composition and structure of the arthropod community in the palm canopies.
A queen of Creightonidris scambognatha Brown is recorded for the fist time for the State of Mato Grosso, Pantanal area, and a worker for the State of Bahia, also for the first time for Brazil. Both specimens were obtained with Winkler extractors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTerrestrial invertebrates in central Amazonian floodplains must cope with annual long-term inundation. Parasites should be affected mainly indirectly through the specific life-cycles of their hosts. We studied the temporal structure of a beetle-fungus system at a central Amazonian blackwater floodplain (Rio Negro, Brazil).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is described on the basis of museum specimens of a new genus with two species: Mantophasma zephyra gen. et sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvanced juvenile stages and subadults ofGonographis adisi (Pyrgodesmidae, Diplopoda) pass annual flooding periods of 5-6 months under loose bark of submerged tree trunks in a black-water inundation forest near Manaus. Animals graze on algae and show cutaneous respiration, with an uptake of dissolved oxygen greater than 10 μl/mg dry weight/h. Some subadults become adults during the following non-inundation period and reproduce.
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