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List of works by Terry Lee Erwin

A Case of Homonymy in the Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini)

A Catalogue of the Primary Types of Carabidae (Incl. Cicindelinae) in the Collections of the United States National Museum of Natural History (USNM) (Coleoptera)

A Description of the Larva of Thyce Harfordi Casey (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthini)

scientific article published in 1970

A New Genus and Species of Lachnophorini and Two New Species of Lebiini from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

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A Revision of Brachinus of North America: Part I. The California Species (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

A Supplement to the Bombardier Beetles of North and Middle America: New Records for Middle America (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

A Synopsis of the Immature Stages of Pseudomorphini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with Notes on Tribal Affinities and Behavior in Relation to Life with Ants

scientific article published in 1981

A synopsis of the genus Cypholoba Chaudoir (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Anthiini) known to occur in the Republic of South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on April 6, 2012

A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae)

scientific article

A taxonomic synopsis of the Tribe Loricerini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

scientific article published in 1969

ARBOREAL BEETLES OF TROPICAL FORESTS: THE XYSTOSOMI GROUP, SUBTRIBE XYSTOSOMINA (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE: BEMBIDIINI). PART I. CHARACTER ANALYSIS, TAXONOMY, AND DISTRIBUTION

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Accelerating innovative publishing in taxonomy and systematics: 250 issues of ZooKeys

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After 157 years, a second specimen and species of the phylogenetically enigmatic and previously monobasic genus Nototylus Gemminger & Harold, 1868 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nototylini)

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Agra Fabricius (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae: Lebiini: Agrina), Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests: The Rare, Non-Neotropical Texas Species at the Generic Northern Limit, with Notes on Their Way of Life

scholarly article in The Coleopterists Bulletin, vol. 71 no. 4, December 2017

Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: platyscelis‐group systematics (Carabidae)

scientific article published in April 1982

Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 4, 2010

An evolutionary basis for conservation strategies

scientific article published on 01 August 1991

Antarctotrechus balli sp. n. (Carabidae, Trechini): the first ground beetle from Antarctica

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Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests: Taxonomic Supplement for theAGRA VIRGATAandOHAUSIGroups with a New Species and Additional Distribution Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

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Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests:AGRAFabricius, A Taxonomic Supplement for thePLATYSCELISGroup with New Species and Distribution Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)

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Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests:AgraFabricius, Larval Descriptions with Notes on Natural History and Behaviour (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)

scholarly article by Erik Arndt published in September 2001

Arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests : Agra Fabricius, the Novaurora complex: Coleoptera:Carabidae:Lebiini:Calleidina

scientific article published in 2000

Argentinatachoides, a new genus from Argentina putatively related to the Australian-Tasmanian Tasmanitachoides Erwin, 1972 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini)

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Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Badister Clairville, 1806: A new species and new continental record for the nominate subgenus in Amazonian Perú (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Licinini) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 16, 2011

Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Beetles that live with ants (Carabidae, Pseudomorphini, Pseudomorpha Kirby, 1825): A revision of the santarita species group

scientific article

Beetles that live with ants (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pseudomorphini): A remarkable new genus and species from Guyane (French Guiana), Guyanemorpha spectabilis gen. n., sp. n.

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Bombardier Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of North America: Part II. Biology and Behavior of Brachinus pallidus Erwin in California

Book review: FLIES - The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera Stephen A. Marshall (2012) Firefly Press Ltd., 616 pp

scientific article

Canopy Beetles: Clarification of Heat Gain and Water Loss

scientific article published in 1981

Carabidae diversity along an altitudinal gradient in a Peruvian cloud forest (Coleoptera) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 16, 2011

Chaudoir's Studies of the Taxa Agrina and Brachinitae (Coleoptera:Carabidae)

Cicindis horni Bruch (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cicindini): The Fairy Shrimp Hunting Beetle, its way of life on the Salinas Grandes of Argentina

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2004)

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change ⬇️

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Data publication and dissemination of interactive keys under the open access model

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Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome ⬇️

scientific article

Do species traits determine patterns of wood production in Amazonian forests?

scientific article published in 2009

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Economically Beneficial Ground Beetles. The specialized predators Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) and Stenaptinus jessoensis (Morawitz): Their laboratory behavior and descriptions of immature stages (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae)

scientific article

Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change ⬇️

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Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2016

Experimental assemblage of novel plant-herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Extinct or Extant? A New Species of Intertidal Bembidiine (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) from the Palos Verdes Peninsula, California

Extrapolations from field studies and known faunas converge on dramatically increased estimates of global microgastrine parasitoid wasp species richness (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

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Fossil Tachyine Beetles from Mexican and Baltic Amber

Halocoryza Alluaud 1919, sea-side beetles of the Indian, Atlantic (sensu lato), and Pacific Oceans: a generic synopsis and description of a remarkable new species from Baja California Sur, México (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritini, Clivinina) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 8, 2011

Hyboptera Chaudoir, 1872 of the Cryptobatida group of subtribe Agrina: A taxonomic revision with notes on their ways of life (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Hybopteroides, a new genus in the Cryptobatida group of subtribe Agrina, with three new species and notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)

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Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots

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Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

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Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID

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Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover

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Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots

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Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink ⬇️

scientific article published on March 2015

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Mapping Patterns of β β — Diversity for Beetles Across the Western Amazon Basin: A Preliminary Case for Improving Inventory Methods and Conservation Strategies ⬇️

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Max Bänninger: His Collection and Publications (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots

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Mordellidae (Coleoptera) Research: A Review Based on the from 1864 through 2013

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Neotropical Thoasia Liebke, 1939 and Straneotia Mateu, 1961 of the Cryptobatida group, subtribe Agrina: Taxonomic revisions with notes on their ways of life (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

New enigmatic species of ground beetles from stream margins and scree in the Andes of South America (Carabidae, Trechitae, Andinodontis n.gen.) ⬇️

scholarly article

Newsletter

On the Identity of Bembidion puritanum Hayward (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini)

On the Provenance of Boheman's “Eugenies Resa” Carabidae (Coleoptera) Allegedly Described from Hawaii

article by James K. Liebherr et al published September 2010 in The Coleopterists Bulletin

Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Phloeoxena signata (Dejean): Northern range extensions to Maryland and Tennessee, U.S.A., and the first record for Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

scholarly article by Warren E. Steiner et al published 26 June 2007 in The Coleopterists Bulletin

Phylogeny of the beetle supertribe Trechitae (Coleoptera: Carabidae): Unexpected clades, isolated lineages, and morphological convergence

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Publication and dissemination of datasets in taxonomy: ZooKeys working example

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Publishing online identification keys in the form of scholarly papers

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Rainforest understory beetles of the Neotropics: Mizotrechus Bates 1872, a generic synopsis with descriptions of new species from Central America and northern South America (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Perigonini) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 4, 2011

Recovery Plan for the Endangered Taxonomy Profession

scientific article published in January 2011

Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Relationships of Predaceous Beetles to Tropical Forest Wood Decay. Part I. Descriptions of the Immature Stages of Eurycoleus macularis Chevrolat (Carabidae: Lebiini)

Revolving images and multi-image keys open new horizons in descriptive taxonomy: ZooKeys working examples

scientific article

STRATIFICATION OF NEOTROPICAL FOREST MICROHABITATS AND ASSOCIATED ARTHROPOD FAUNULES: A PROGRESS REPORT ⬇️

scientific article published in 1993

Seasonal and Size Patterns, Trophic Structure, and Richness of Coleoptera in the Tropical Arboreal Ecosystem: The Fauna of the Tree Luehea seemannii Triana and Planch in the Canal Zone of Panama

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics ⬇️

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Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples

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Small terrestrial ground-beetles of the Amazon Basin (Coleoptera: Bembidiini: Tachyina and Anillina) ⬇️

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Studies of the Subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 September 2007

Studies of the Subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) Supplement B: Lectotype Designation of Masoreus ridiculus Schaufuss and Transfer of This Species to Polyderis

Studies of the Subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) Supplement C: Discovery of the Sister Group of Mioptachys Bates, in the Amazon Basin: Inpa psydroides a New Genus and Species

Studies of the Subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Supplement D: Description of a Male of Costitachys inusitatus Erwin, with Notes on Distribution of This Species

Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part I: A revision of the Neotropical genus Xystosomus Schaum

scientific article published in 1973

Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part II: A Revision of the New World-Australian Genus Pericompsus LeConte

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Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part III: Systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the genus Tachyta Kirby

scholarly article by Terry Lee Erwin published 1975 in Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology

Systematic and Zoogeographic Notes on Apotomini, an Old World Faunal Element New to the Western Hemisphere List, with a Description of a New Species from Brazil (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Systematic, Natural History, and Zoogeographic Notes on the Genus Agra Fabricius, with a Description of a New Species from Panama (Coleoptera:Carabidae:Lebiini)

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

scientific article

Taxonomic review of New World Tachyina (Coleoptera, Carabidae): descriptions of new genera, subgenera, and species, with an updated key to the subtribe in the Americas

scientific article (publication date: 20 October 2016)

Taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Moriosomus Motschulsky (Insecta: Coleoptera, Carabidae, Morionini) with notes on the way of life of the species

scientific article (publication date: 2 April 2007)

Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research

scientific article

Techniques

The Baron Maximilien de Chaudoir: Inheritance, Associates, Travels, Work, and Legacy

The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twenty-nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)

scientific article (publication date: 16 December 2002)

The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The Ground Beetle Types of Max Liebke in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

The Larva of Neotropical Enceladus gigas Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Siagoninae: Enceladini) with Notes on the Phylogeny and Classification of Some of the More Primitive Tribes of Ground Beetles

The Nearctic-Caribbean species Leptotrachelus dorsalis (Fabricius, 1801): Larval descriptions with a diagnosis of immature Ctenodactylini and natural history notes on the genus and tribe (Coleoptera, Carabidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on May 17, 2012

The Neotropical species Askalaphium depressum (Bates): Larval description, first diagnosis and illustrations of immature Ctenodactylini, with natural history notes on the genus and tribe (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2003)

The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panam : Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera)

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2004)

The genus Anthia Weber in the Republic of South Africa, Identification, distribution, biogeography, and behavior (Coleoptera, Carabidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

The genus Coptocarpus Chaudoir of the Australian Region with notes on related African species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Oodini)

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The global abundance of tree palms

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The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them

Trechus obtusus Erichson in California (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Tree height integrated into pan-tropical forest biomass estimates

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Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates ⬇️

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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tropical Forests: Their Richness in Coleoptera and Other Arthropod Species

scientific article published in 1982

Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes ⬇️

scientific article published on January 8, 2013

Unprecedented ichneumonid parasitoid wasp diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published on 3 October 2012

Using a comprehensive DNA barcode library to detect novel egg and larval host plant associations in aCephaloleiarolled-leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

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Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

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Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

Xenaroswellanini, Xenaroswelliana deltaquadrant, New Tribe, New Genus, and New Species from the Cerrado of Estado de Goiás, Brazil (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 December 2007

ZooKeys 150: Three and a half years of innovative publishing and growth

scientific article

ZooKeys 500: traditions and innovations hand-in-hand servicing our taxonomic community

scientific article

ZooKeys anniversary: 10 years of leadership toward open-access publishing of zoological data and establishment at Pensoft of like-minded sister journals across the biodiversity spectrum

scientific article

ZooKeys, unlocking Earth’s incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From “print-based” to “web-based” taxonomy, systematics, and natural history. ZooKeys Editorial Opening Paper

scientific article published on 4 July 2008

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