Invertebrates in the canopy of tropical rain forests How much do we really know?

By Y. Basset. Plant Ecology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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How Many Species of Gall-Inducing Insects Are There on Earth, and Where Are They? (2009, background): “Fogging, the most popular sampling technique (Basset 2001), does not collect galls at all.”
From communities to continents: beta diversity of herbivorous insects (2005, background): “Despite these problems there are new data (Stork et al. 1997, Asher et al. 2001, Basset 2001, Benes et al. 2002, Basset et al. 2003) and theoretical developments (Hanski 1999, Hubbell 2001) that improve our understanding of insect distribution.”
Unique elevational diversity patterns of geometrid moths in an Andean montane rainforest (2003, background): “For example, none of the 89 studies on canopy arthropods reviewed by Basset (2001) was conducted in a tropical montane habitat.”
Host Specificity, Alpha- and Beta-Diversity of Phytophagous Beetles in Two Tropical Forests in Panama (2004, unknown): “…ranges than specialized species (Gaston 1991), but these relations are hard to study because geographical range of insect species in tropical forests is very poorly known for most groups, and even less knowledge exists about similarity among insect communities between sites (Basset 2001).”
Insects on Plants: Diversity of Herbivore Assemblages Revisited (2005, background): “Stratification studies either compare mass samples among strata without regard to hosts (see Basset et al. 2003) or compare the fauna of mature trees with that of conspecific seedlings DIVERSITY OF HERBIVORE ASSEMBLAGES 603 or saplings (e.g., Barrios 2003, Basset 2001a).”
Vertical and Temporal Patterns of Biodiversity of Fruit-Feeding Butterflies in a Tropical Forest in Uganda (2004, background): “Much of this biodiversity and its dynamics is unknown, and, in particular, the canopy is still a poorly studied habitat (Walter et al. 1998; Basset 2001; Mitchell 2001).”
Vertical stratification of feeding guilds and body size in beetle assemblages from an Australian tropical rainforest (2007, background): “Much still remains unknown about the diversity and biology of the most species-rich group inhabiting tropical forests, the insects, as only partial inventories have been made for a few sites around the world (Basset 2001; Ozanne et al. 2003).”
The contribution of cacao agroforests to the conservation of lower canopy ant and beetle diversity in Indonesia (2007, background): “Identifications To date, the extremely high species richness of tropical regions remains largely undescribed by taxonomists and the insect fauna in Indonesia is no exception (Basset 2001).”
Beta diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in an Andean montane rainforest (2003, background): “Few studies have analysed beta diversity and the possible underlying mechanisms responsible for changes in diversity in this guild across small spatial scales in tropical ecosystems (e.g. Schulze, 2000; Basset, 2001; Hill et al., 2001).”
The invasive Yellow Crazy Ant and the decline of forest ant diversity in Indonesian cacao agroforests (2008, background): “Identifications The study of biodiversity in the tropics is a challenge due to extremely high species richness and the fact that the majority of that richness to date remains undescribed by taxonomy (Basset 2001).”
Arthropod Abundance, Canopy Structure, and Microclimate in a Bornean Lowland Tropical Rain Forest 1 (2006, background): “We do not at the moment have enough reliable information to understand what these consequences might be (Basset 2001).”