Does butterfly diversity predict moth diversity? Testing a popular indicator taxon at local scales

By Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen Daily, P. Ehrlich. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Biodiversity, Urban Areas, and Agriculture: Locating Priority Ecoregions for Conservation (2003, background): “Authors are thus forced to assume that these taxa serve as informative indicators of overall biodiversity, an assumption that been increasingly challenged (Weaver 1995, Flather et al. 1997, Ricketts et al. 1999a, 2002).”
A Multiscale Landscape Approach to Predicting Bird and Moth Rarity Hotspots in a Threatened Pitch Pine–Scrub Oak Community (2004, background): “Conservation Implications Crucial conservation decisions, such as establishing reserves within a local area or identifying critical habitats within established reserves, are made at scales much smaller than typically investigated in habitat-prioritization studies (Ricketts et al. 2002).”
Vertical and Temporal Patterns of Biodiversity of Fruit-Feeding Butterflies in a Tropical Forest in Uganda (2004, background): “However, patterns of congruence and complementarity vary between biogeographical regions (Pearson and Carroll 1999; Cleary 2002), habitats (Ricketts et al. 2002) and conservation status (Moore et al.”
Performance of Macrolichens and Lichen Genera as Indicators of Lichen Species Richness and Composition (2005, background): “By restricting the comparisons to phylogenetically related groups, a higher covariance between the numbers of species of the groups is expected (Beccaloni & Gaston 1995; but see Ricketts et al. 2002).”
Rapid assessment of invertebrate biodiversity on rocky shores: where there’s a whelk there’s a way (2005, background): “Landres et al. 1988; Pearson and Cassola 1992; Oliver et al. 1997; Blair 1999; Ricketts et al. 2002 ), only recently have there been equivalent studies in marine systems (Vanderklift et al. 1998; Ward et al. 1999; Olsgard and Somerfield 2000; O’Hara 2001; Banks and Skilleter 2002; Gladstone 2002; W”
Searching for biodiversity indicators in running waters: do bryophytes, macroinvertebrates, and fish show congruent diversity patterns? (2005, background): “…at biogeographical and regional scales (Gaston and Williams 1996; Flather et al. 1997; Reid 1998; Ricketts et al. 1999), whereas the few studies comparing congruence across local habitats have typically reported low concordance in species richness (Lawton et al. 1998; Ricketts et al. 2002).”
Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity: a Comparison of Different Area Selection Methods (2005, background): “It is then assumed that patterns of species richness, endemism, rarity or vulnerability in these taxa are indicative of similar patters in unsurveyed taxa in the region (Pearson and Cassola 1992; Reyers and Jaarsveld 2000; Ricketts et al. 2002 ).”
Effects of rain forest logging on species richness and assemblage composition of small mammals in Southeast Asia (2007, unknown): “Based on the observation that different plant or invertebrate taxa respond inconsistently to anthropogenic habitat alteration (Lawton et al., 1998; Ricketts et al., 2002), we conclude that habitat disturbance in the form of logging may not necessarily lead to the synchronous alteration of food avail”
Unique elevational diversity patterns of geometrid moths in an Andean montane rainforest (2003, background): “Although several studies have established parallels between diversity patterns of different groups of organisms (Wolda 1996, Kerr et al. 2000), others found that there were none (Lawton et al. 1998, Ricketts et al. 2002).”
Recommendations for Assessing the Effectiveness of Surrogate Species Approaches (2006, methodology): “Methods Collected field data to test surrogates and other species 11 8 7 26 Kremen 1992; Oliver and Beattie 1996; Swengel and Swengel 1999; Chase et al. 2000; Hughes et al. 2000; Kerr et al. 2000; Sahlen and Ekestubbe 2001; Fleishman et al. 2002, 2003; Mac Nally and Fleishman 2002, 2004; Ranius 2002”
A multi-scale analysis of species-environment relationships : breeding birds in a pitch pine-scrub oak (Pinus rigida-Quercus ilicifolia) community (2003, background): “The significance of landscape characteristics for moths was somewhat surprising given that their distributions are often thought to depend mainly upon the plot level availability of host plants (Kitching et al., 2000; Ricketts et al., 2002).”