Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons

By V. Novotný, Y. Basset. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Moving beyond the guild concept: developing a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles (2015, unknown): “Trophic guild (Moran & Southwood, 1982; Novotny & Basset, 2000; Blaum et al., 2011), life history (Davies et al., 2000; Driscoll & Weir, 2005; Barbaro & van Halder, 2009; Inward et al., 2011; Schirmel et al., 2012) and ecomorphological approaches (Ribera et al., 2001; Barton et al., 2011) all…”
The concepts of bias, precision and accuracy, and their use in testing the performance of species richness estimators, with a literature review of estimator performance (2005, background): “…disappear after continued sampling, one may assume that the total species richness has been reached (which, admittedly, rarely happens in most real data collections, e.g. Novotny and Basset 2000, Mao and Colwell 2005, but see Walther and Morand 1998 and Walther and Martin 2001 for such examples).”
Insects on Plants: Diversity of Herbivore Assemblages Revisited (2005, background): “However, many rare species prove to be associated with studied hosts, hence, infrequent interactions form a substantial part of plant-herbivore assemblages (Novotny & Basset 2000, Price et al. 1995).”
Diversity and assemblage structure of phytophagous Hemiptera along a latitudinal gradient: predicting the potential impacts of climate change (2005, background): “Such a large proportion of species being rare is not uncommon: 45% (n = 1050 species) of insect herbivores were identified as rare on 30 species of trees and shrubs in New Guinea (Novotny & Basset, 2000), and 61% (n = 80) of a fish community in the Bristol Channel, UK, were also classified as rare (”
Invertebrates in the canopy of tropical rain forests How much do we really know? (2001, background): “In tropical rain forests, the distribution of many insect herbivores is aggregated on the foliage, even for generalist species (Novotny & Basset 2000; Basset 2000).”
The challenge of small and rare species in marine biodiversity surveys: microgastropod diversity in a complex tropical coastal environment (2011, background): “3): 60.6% of the species were represented by fewer than 20 specimens; 13.1% were unique singletons and 7.7% were unique doubletons (sensu Novotny and Basset 2000), i.e. 0.3% of the specimens accounted for the 21% rarest species.”
Effects of habitat complexity on forest beetle diversity: do functional groups respond consistently? (2005, background): “The large number of singletons in low complexity habitat may have been transient individuals passing between high complexity habitats or species with low population levels, rather than species which inhabit low complexity areas in great abundances (Novotny & Basset, 2000).”
Discriminatory power of different arthropod data sets for the biological monitoring of anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests (2004, background): “Rare species represent a statistical challenge when comparing different samples, as the information provided by singletons is very low (Novotny and Basset 2000).”
Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities (2007, background): “This observation is poten- 7 5 2 % & - 3 # ) * *+ 0 % & & / ' "/ # 82 9 tially useful for interpreting the distribution of common and rare species in the environment (Novotny and Basset 2000) and their responses to environmental changes (Walker et al. 1999, Kafer and Witte 2004).”
ESTIMATION OF SPECIES RICHNESS: MIXTURE MODELS, THE ROLE OF RARE SPECIES, AND INFERENTIAL CHALLENGES (2005, background): “3 E-mail: cmao@stat.ucr.edu Novotny and Basset (2000) found that 278 of the 1050 insect species recorded (26”
Additive Partitioning of Species Diversity across Multiple Spatial Scales: Implications for Regional Conservation of Biodiversity (2003, background): “For this reason, accumulation curves should not be expected to become saturated in spatially extensive studies of hyperdiverse communities (Palmer 1995; Novotny & Basset 2000; Summerville et al. 2001).”
Ploidy influences rarity and invasiveness in plants (2011, background): “Indeed in many biodiversity samples the modal abundance class is the rarest one (e.g. Novotny & Basset 2000).”
Significance of Specimen Databases from Taxonomic Revisions for Estimating and Mapping the Global Species Diversity of Invertebrates and Repatriating Reliable Specimen Data (2004, background): “…2003), and the only noticeable difference is that the larger samples derived from collections and revisions often yield curves that reach a satisfactory plateau (e.g., Petersen et al. 2003), whereas ecological samples are plagued by large proportions of rare species (e.g., Novotný & Basset 2000).”
Modified Pollard transects for assessing tropical butterfly abundance and diversity (2003, result): “This result suggests that either the students tended to collect individuals that "looked" different from those previously collected, or butterfly relative abundances, especially at Serra dos Orgaos, were comprised of more rare species than predicted by the logseries model, as appears to occur in man”
Unique elevational diversity patterns of geometrid moths in an Andean montane rainforest (2003, background): “Moreover, tropical arthropod communities are characterised by a high proportion of rare species that cannot be excluded as artefact or a group of marginal importance (Price et al. 1995, Novotny and Basset 2000).”