THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS

By J. Longino, Jonathan Coddington, Robert K. Colwell. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Morphological patterns and community organization in leaf-litter ant assemblages (2010, background): “Insects pose significant challenges to the development of models to explain local species composition because the relatively large regional species pools are difficult to quantify for most taxa (Longino et al. 2002), and because the natural history for many groups is poorly understood.”
Diversity, abundance, and species composition of ants in urban green spaces (2010, positive): “Given that ants are social insects, we used occurrence rather than abundance-based data for diversity analysis (Longino et al. 2002).”
INTERPOLATING, EXTRAPOLATING, AND COMPARING INCIDENCE-BASED SPECIES ACCUMULATION CURVES (2004, background): “…67 50 N. American Breeding Bird Survey, 1998 Dorazio and Royle (2003) Rain forest ants, Winkler traps 197 41 La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica Longino et al. (2002) Rain forest seedbank, quadrats 34 121 La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica Butler and Chazdon (1998) Sapling trees (2.5–5.0…”
A comparison of three trapping methods used to survey forest-dwelling Coleoptera (2006, background): “The most important are the effects of the different trapping methods on the species assemblages caught, i.e. methodological edge effects (Longino et al., 2002).”
Diet richness of invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish revealed by DNA barcoding (2013, background): “Moreover, the trends in numbers of unique and duplicate prey occurrences did not decline with sample size, as would be expected if sampling were adequate (Longino et al. 2002).”
Impact of the Little Fire Ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, on Native Forest Ants in Gabon 1 (2006, methodology): “Although such methods of estimating asymptotic richness via extrapolation of observed data show variable behavior and are still in a trial phase (Longino et al. 2002, Colwell et al. 2004), ICE has been shown to be a fairly robust species richness estimator across sites (Chazdon et al. 1998).”
Seasonal variation of arthropod abundance in gaps and the understorey of a lowland moist forest in Panama (2007, background): “In contrast to many Malaise trap studies which focus on exhaustively collecting a focal taxonomic group (Brown & Feener 1995, Longino et al. 2002), this study addresses ecological patterns in seasonal habitat use by a suite of major taxonomic groups.”
Evaluation of Sampling Methods and Species Richness Estimators for Ants in Upland Ecosystems in Florida (2005, methodology): “These results are similar to other comprehensive temperate, subtropical, and tropical ant inventories, where truly rare species comprise a minority of species (Van Pelt 1956, 1958, Talbot 1975, Deyrup and Trager 1986, Longino et al. 2002).”
WHEN TO QUIT? ESTIMATING SPIDER SPECIES RICHNESS IN A NORTHERN EUROPEAN DECIDUOUS FOREST (2003, positive): “Conceptually these are all “edge effects” due to time, method, or space (Longino et al. 2002 ).”
Species Turnover and Vertical Partitioning of Ant Assemblages in the Brazilian Amazon: A Comparison of Forests and Savannas 1 (2005, background): “Although in some cases these include species that are “rare” due to methodological problems (sensu Longino et al. 2002) (e.g., species of the tribe Attini which are rarely attracted to sardine baits), in other cases these included species more typical of another habitat or stratum.”
High rates of army ant raids in the Neotropics and implications for ant colony and community structure (2003, positive): “However, a tropical rainforest may house a community of over 20 army ant species (Longino et al., 2002).”
Habitat heterogeneity overrides the species–area relationship (2008, background): “This approach provided the most taxonomically complete species lists (Stohlgren et al., 1995; Longino et al., 2002).”
Endophytic fungal communities in woody perennials of three tropical forest types of the Western Ghats, southern India (2011, background): “A relatively higher evenness index (J0) of the montane evergreen forest endophyte assemblage (Table 2) also showed a more equitable distribution of endophyte species resulting in increased diversity (Longino et al. 2002).”
The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient (2007, background): “…(1) accessible, complete elevational gradients in intact habitats are scarce and (2) arthropods present a methodological challenge because of their often extreme richness in tropical regions and associated difficulties in sorting and identification (Novotny & Basset, 2000; Longino et al ., 2002).”