Monitoring the impact of anthropogenic and naturogenic threats on orchid community through diversity, taxonomy and conservation studies is necessary. Reintroduction of these species to their natural habitat associates with their resilience, selection of suitable trees and sites for regeneration and restoration efforts, drives the conservation initiative. Upon obtaining an accurate estimate of the diversity for genetic resource...

Aim Latitudinal differences in diversity have long fascinated ecologists. It is unclear whether small soil animals such as nematodes show latitudinal differences in diversity. Based on hypotheses concerning the basis for greater tropical diversity, and by analogy with other groups, we predicted (1) greater alpha diversity in the equatorial tropics than the High Arctic, (2) greater beta and gamma diversity in the tropics. We al...