Projektnummer

0061146

Zusammenfassung

Conventional biodiversity research mainly focuses on the number of species and on the adult animal stage, because adult animals can be more easily identified than larvae. Yet larvae have a larger impact on the environment. Concerning biomass and number of individuals arthropod larvae are the dominating form of animal life. Thus common biodiversity approaches are not sensitive for the true diversity of animal species. The new approach of the professorship is based on an alternative and species-independent measure for diversity: morphology. Morphological diversity can be measured quantit...