Selected Papers from 1st International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution (BDEE 2021)

• Other Authors: Wink, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; chelonians; pelomedusidae; foraging ecology; invasive species; alien; translocated; critically endangered; freshwater fishes; freshwater ecosystems; conservation; biodiversity; red list; diversity; algae; alpine lake; bioindication; ecological characteristic; ecosystem; Nesamovyte Lake; Eastern Carpathians; CITES; endangered species; SDM; degraded amazon; machine learning; taxonomic diversity; functional richness; Rao's quadratic entropy; climatic variables; generalized additive mixed models; macroecological patterns; diversity drivers; urban birds; bird assemblages; urbanisation; landscape ecology; land use change; geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA); Australian monsoonal tropics; wild goats; single nucleotide polymorphisms; genetic diversity; population structure; cattle; Kalmyk cattle; Kyrgyz cattle; Kazakh cattle; Kazakh white-headed breed; historical specimens; microsatellites; consensus genotypes; sheep; runs of homozygosity; genomic inbreeding; bees; pollinators; urban management; ecological niche model; distribution; aquaculture; mosquitofish; climate change; expansion; catena ecosystem; ephemeral mud wallows; habitat use; mammal variety; Skukuza area; species presence; Stevenson-Hamilton supersite; Bryodelphax mareki sp. nov.; DNA barcoding; Eutardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Macrobiotus birendrai sp. nov.; water bears; eutrophication; exotic species; tropical lakes; zooplankton; agroecosystems; arthropods; environment; indicators; RDP measures; Porifera; microbiome; sponge disease; 16S rRNA sequencing; Baikal; Poland; Europe; Cydalima perspectalis; box tree moth
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the character of academic conferences has changed. Formerly, conferences required the physical presence of their members and audiences. However, travel restrictions due to the pandemic caused a shift in the traditional conference format, thus resulting in the rise of online conferences after 2020. In 2021 and 2022, the journal "Diversity" similarly organized online conferences. The well-attended online conference in March of 2021 attracted a wide range of speakers on biodiversity, ecology and evolution, as well as on 17 publications from this Special Issue. The publications cover several timely aspects of biodiversity, such as the importance of invasive species, the ecology of urbanization, the effects of drought on wildlife in Southern Africa, the results of human activities on insect, mammal, bird, reptile and amphibia populations, and the genetic diversity of animal breeds, microbiomes and planktonic organisms. Additionally, taxonomic and biosystematic topics are also covered in several SI publications.