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Frank-T. Krell

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Nationality: Human. Ethnicity: Human. Natural historian, taxonomist, zoologist. Living on the Colorado prairie, working at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Studying dung beetles, other scarabaeoids, and what is going on with taxonomy.

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Check out this mummified dung beetle! A local scientist got to study the "very rare" beetle mummy.

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To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!

15.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, a paper with the description (incl. COI barcodes) of four new species of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus from West Africa, was published in the journal Taxonomy: www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/...

19.04.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Special Issue β€œDiversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea” by the journals "Taxonomy" and "Diversity", open for submissions. mdpi.com/.../diversit..., mdpi.com/.../taxonomy...
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell

27.01.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country - Biodiversity and Conservation Expertise in biodiversity research (taxonomy, faunistics, conservation with taxonomic background) appears to decline worldwide. While the β€œtaxonomic impediment” is discussed extensively in the literat...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... One month ago we published a paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. My Hungarian colleagues compiled a wealth of data. The paper is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation.

08.12.2024 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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