University of North Carolina at Asheville

Parasite hideouts: Preserving native cavity-nesting Hymenoptera through pollinator hotel management

As many pollinator populations around the world decline due to habitat loss, improving management practices for native pollinators becomes a priority. Pollinators are essential to healthy ecosystems and play irreplaceable roles in the global food system. Pollinator hotels can pro...

An annotated checklist and species accounts of the native terrestrial reptiles of the Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), an archipelago of more than 200 islands and islets at the southeastern terminus of the Lucayan Archipelago, support a native terrestrial reptile fauna of 11 species representing eight families. Of these, eight species are endemic to the TCI, an...