Montane Andean rain forests are a global diversity hotspot of geometrid moths

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Disturbance effects on diversity of epiphytes and moths in a montane forest in Ecuador (2008, result): “Highest diversity of geometrid moths was also detected for old secondary forest on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Axmacher et al., 2004), although, overall diversity of Geometridae was conspicuously low in this area when compared with Ecuadorian sites (Brehm et al., 2005).”
The world and its shades of green: a meta‐analysis on trophic cascades across temperature and precipitation gradients (2013, background): “For instance, control of herbivore abundance by predation and plant defences is predicted to increase in warmer conditions (Table 3c,f); this effect will be detrimental to herbivore taxa whose diversity peaks in tropical montane ecosystems such as geometrids (Brehm et al., 2005), where species thriv”