Publications

2025

  • Foerster, S. Í. A. (2025). Body size prediction in scorpions: A phylogenetic comparative examination of linear measurements of individual body parts. PeerJ, 13, e18621. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18621

  • Brito‐Almeida, T. R., Foerster, S. Í. A., Lima, J. R., Da Silva, M. A., De Moura, G. J. B., & Lira, A. F. A. (2025). Free Pasture of Exotic Goats Reduces Diversity and Negatively Affects Body Condition in Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) Assemblage From Brazilian Seasonal Dry Tropical Forest. Ecology and Evolution, 15(1), e70804. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70804

  • Costa, J. M. R., Foerster, S. Í. A., Pessoa, V. B., Tizo-Pedroso, E., De Moura, G. J. B., & De Araujo Lira, A. F. (2025). Biotic interactions rather than habitat complexity predict the occurrence of bark-dwelling social pseudoscorpions in urban environments. Biologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-025-01985-6

  • Ude, K., Foerster, S. I. A., Fetnassi, N., & Tammaru, T. (2025). Forest clear‐cuts support diverse moth fauna but lack common grassland species. Journal of Applied Ecology, 1365-2664.70063. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70063

2024

  • Foerster, S. Í. A., Clarke, J. T., Õunap, E., Teder, T., & Tammaru, T. (2024). A comparative study of body size evolution in moths: Evidence of correlated evolution with feeding and phenology-related traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(8), 891–904. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae072

  • Foerster, S. I. A., Javoiš, J., Holm, S., & Tammaru, T. (2024). Predicting insect body masses based on linear measurements: A phylogenetic case study on geometrid moths. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 141(1), 71–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad069

  • Dionisio-da-Silva, W., Foerster, S. Í. A., Gallão, J. E., & Lira, A. F. A. (2024). What’s for dinner? Prey consumption by Neotropical scorpions across contrasting environments. The Journal of Arachnology, 52(1). https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-22-060

  • Lira, A. F. A., De Moura, G. J. B., & Foerster, S. Í. A. (2024). Scorpion assemblages in threatened Brazilian forests: The role of environmental factors in explaining beta‐diversity patterns. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17(1), 128–138. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12699

  • Oliveira Souza, M. C., Foerster, S. Í. A., Salomão, R. P., Souza‐Alves, J. P., De Moura, G. J. B., Lira, A. F. D. A., & Ferreira, R. B. (2024). The role of bromeliad structural complexity on the presence, spatial distribution and predator avoidance in Tityus neglectus (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Ecology and Evolution, 14(6), e11522. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11522

  • Ude, K., Õunap, E., Kaasik, A., Davis, R. B., Javoiš, J., Nedumpally, V., Foerster, S. I. A., & Tammaru, T. (2024). Evolution of wing shape in geometrid moths: Phylogenetic effects dominate over ecology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(5), 526–537. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae033

2023

  • Lira, A. F. A., Andrade, A. R. S., & Foerster, S. I. A. (2023). Latitudinal Trends in Scorpion Assemblages of Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Do the Rapoport’s and Bergmann’s Rules Apply? In R. W. Myster (Ed.), Neotropical Gradients and Their Analysis (pp. 179–203). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22848-3_7

  • Lira, A. F., Foerster, S. I. A., & Badry, A. (2023). Living in a desert: Examining scorpion beta diversity in Egyptian drylands from a macroecological perspective. African Zoology, 58(1), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2023.2188121

2022

  • Foerster, S. I. A., Dionisio-da-Silva, W., Dos Santos, A. B., Ribeiro De Albuquerque, C. M., & Lira, A. F. A. (2022). New records of the not-so-rare males of the parthenogenetic scorpion Tityus stigmurus (Thorell, 1876) (Scorpiones: Buthidae). The Journal of Arachnology, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-21-009

  • Cunha, H. P., Santos, A. B., Foerster, S. Í. A., Moura, G. J. B., & Lira, A. F. A. (2022). Can contrasting habitats influence predatory behavior in tropical forest scorpions? Acta Ethologica, 25(2), 107–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-022-00390-5

  • Lira, A. F. A., Foerster, S. I. A., Medeiros DeSouza, A., & De Armas, L. F. (2022). Disentangling diversity patterns in Cuban scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Novitates Caribaea, 19, 72–91. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi19.290

  • Moreira, M. O. M., Araújo, V. L. N., Foerster, S. Í. A., Moura, G. J. B., & Lira, A. F. A. (2022). Relationship between body size and habitat heterogeneity on cannibalism and intraguild predation in scorpions. Biologia, 77(10), 2867–2873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-022-01154-z

2021

  • Foerster, S. I. A., Dionisio-da-Silva, W., Dos Santos, A. B., De Albuquerque, C. M. R., & Lira, A. F. D. A. (2021). Notes on the courtship behavior of the parthenogenetic scorpion Tityus stigmurus. Acta Arachnologica, 70(2), 83–86. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.70.83

  • Lira, A. F. A., Araujo, J. C., Rego, F. N. A. A., Foerster, S. I. A., & Albuquerque, C. M. R. (2021). Habitat heterogeneity shapes and shifts scorpion assemblages in a Brazilian seasonal dry tropical forest. Journal of Arid Environments, 186, 104413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104413

  • Lira, A. F. A., Foerster, S. I. A., Albuquerque, C. M. R., & Moura, G. J. B. (2021). Contrasting patterns at interspecific and intraspecific levels in scorpion body size across a climatic gradient from rainforest to dryland vegetation. Zoology, 146, 125908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2021.125908

  • Lira, A. F. A., Foerster, S. I. A., Salomão, R. P., Porto, T. J., Albuquerque, C. M. R., & Moura, G. J. B. (2021). Understanding the effects of human disturbance on scorpion diversity in Brazilian tropical forests. Journal of Insect Conservation, 25(1), 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-020-00292-6

  • Salomão, R. P., Lira, A. F. A., Foerster, S. I. A., & Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. (2021). Dung beetle assemblage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from an altitudinal enclave of rainforest surrounded by a Seasonally Tropical Dry Forest in the Neotropics. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 42(1), 55–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00517-4

2020

  • Foerster, S. Í. A., De Araújo Lira, A. F., & De Almeida, C. G. (2020). Vegetation structure as the main source of variability in scorpion assemblages at small spatial scales and further considerations for the conservation of Caatinga landscapes. Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 15(4), 533–550. https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.15.e59000

2019

  • Foerster, S. I. A., DeSouza, A. M., & Lira, A. F. A. (2019). Macroecological approach for scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones): β-diversity in Brazilian montane forests. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 97(10), 914–921. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2019-0008

2016

  • Lira, A. F. A., Foerster, S. I. A., & Silva-Filho, A. A. C. (2016). Reports of scorpion predation by spiders in the Brazilian Atlantic forest and Caatinga (Arachnida: Scorpiones, Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 28, 87–89.