William E. Magnusson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a method that would be appropriate for long-term ecological studies, but that would permit rapid surveys to evaluate biotic complementarity and land-use planning in Amazonia.

TL;DR: This review reports on experience gathered at two model sites in Amazonia, which were used to design the RAPELD system, which is the principle basis for the Inventory Component of the Program on Biodiversity Research (PPBio) of the Brazilian government (http://ppbio.inpa.gov.br).

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that terrestrially breeding frogs are habitat generalists that show little mesoscale beta diversity associated with habitat variation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared pitfall traps, sardine baits and Winkler extraction to detect ground-dwelling ants in the field and compared the pooled results from the three techniques to results using one or two techniques combined, concluding that pitfall-trapping is the most efficient technique, allowing reduction of 48% in cost and 43% in time.

TL;DR: Genus can be used as a surrogate for species, due to its high predictive value, independent of environmental heterogeneity, and may be useful for species in other megadiverse regions, especially where savings in project costs can be applied to increase sampling effort.