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Brian Fisher is a Curator and Professor at the California Academy of Sciences in the United States. His research focuses on ecological and evolutionary dynamics, particularly in Madagascar, as evidenced by his recent articles on diverse topics such as transfer learning for Malagasy arthropods and the nutritional analysis of edible insect species. He also explores the impacts of human activities on biodiversity and soundscapes, contributing to a greater understanding of conservation and sustainability.

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Collaborative Research: Phylogeography in Madagascar - Using ants to test hypotheses of biotic diversification in a model continent

Open Date: 2011-08-01

Close Date: 2014-07-31

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Collaborative Research: Ants of the Southwest Indian Ocean and East Africa (ASWEA): assessing phylogenetic diversity and biogeographic linkages across the Mozambique Channel

Open Date: 2009-09-01

Close Date: 2014-08-31

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Catalog of Fishes 2.0: Improving Services and Preparing for Community Participation

Open Date: 2007-06-01

Close Date: 2013-09-30

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AToL: Collaborative Research on Ant Phylogeny: A Comprehensive Evolutionary Tree for the World's Premier Social Organisms

Open Date: 2004-10-01

Close Date: 2011-09-30

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Madagascar Ant Diversity Initiative (MANDI)

Open Date: 2004-05-01

Close Date: 2009-04-30

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Common to rare transfer learning (CORAL) enables inference and prediction for a quarter million rare Malagasy arthropods

Human contributions to global soundscapes are less predictable than the acoustic rhythms of wildlife

Data of the Insect Biome Atlas

Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity

Enhancing Cricket Farming Efficiency: Comparative Analysis of Temperature Effects on Three Edible Malagasy Species

Black Soldier Fly Frass Fertilizer Outperforms Traditional Fertilizers in Terms of Plant Growth in Restoration in Madagascar

A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar

Evolutionary history, novel lineages and symbiont coevolution in the ant tribe Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Growth Performance and Nutritional Content of Tropical House Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1969)) Reared on Diets Formulated from Weeds and Agro By-Products

Nutritional Composition of Four Edible Grasshopper Species Frequently Consumed in Madagascar: Insights for Nutritional Contribution and Alternative Insect Farming

Linear Morphometry of Male Genitalia Distinguishes the Ant Genera Monomorium and Syllophopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Madagascar

Temperature and water availability drive insect seasonality across a temperate and a tropical region

Effect of Cricket Frass Fertilizer on growth and pod production of green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Impact of temperature on the bionomics and geographical range margins of the two-spotted field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus in the world: Implications for its mass farming

Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 2. Dolichoderinae

Neoisoptera repeatedly colonised Madagascar after the Middle Miocene climatic optimum

Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale

﻿Description of the male of Erromyrma Bolton &amp; Fisher, 2016 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Comparing ant morphology measurements from microscope and online AntWeb.org 2D z‐stacked images

Using computer vision to understand the global biogeography of ant color

Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae

Exploring the diversity of the Malagasy Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna via integrative taxonomy

Life cycle and production potential of a traditionally eaten phloem-feeding planthopper (sakondry, Zanna tenebrosa) in Madagascar

Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities

Revisiting the morphological species groups of West-Palearctic Aphaenogaster ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) under a phylogenetic perspective: toward an evolutionary classification

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Andreia Miraldo

Lech Borowiec

Gleb Tikhonov

Paola de Lima Ferreira

Søren Faurby

Tom Bishop

Cortni Borgerson

Angelica Crottini

Piotr Łukasik

Jan Šobotník

Hannah Buckley

Niels Martin Schmidt

Simon Hellemans

John Loehr

Sebastian Salata

Otso Ovaskainen

Yukihiro Kinjo

Niels Andela

Petteri Lehikoinen

Harith Farooq

Matthew Aardema

Tomas Roslin

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Tobias Andermann

Thomas Pagnon

Pekka Niittynen

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Description of the male of Erromyrma Bolton & Fisher, 2016 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)