Moth assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in remnants of upland Australian rain forest

By R. Kitching, A. Orr, L. Thalib, H. Mitchell, M. Hopkins, A. Graham. 2000

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

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Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) and conservation: background and perspective (2004, methodology): “…moths in nine remnants of notophyll vine forests in Queensland, Australia was used to help define effects of forest fragmentation on moth assemblages, and to detect whether moths may contribute to prediction of such effects (Kitching et al. 2000) as a tool in rapid biodiversity assessment .”
Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests (2009, background): “Some moth families/subfamilies (e.g., Arctiinae, Catocalinae, Heliothinae, Noctuinae, Hermeniidae, and Phycitinae) respond positively to disturbances, while others (e.g., Ennominae, Geometrinae, Epipaschiinae, Lymantriidae, and Anthelidae) respond negatively to disturbance (Kitching et al., 2000).”
EFFECTS OF TIMBER HARVEST ON FOREST LEPIDOPTERA: COMMUNITY, GUILD, AND SPECIES RESPONSES (2002, background): “Furthermore, the Lepidoptera have shown promise as forest indicator taxa (Kitching et al. 2000) and as surrogates for the diversity of other taxa such as the Hymenoptera (Kerr et al. 2000) or even birds (Blair 1999).”
Use of terrestrial invertebrates for biodiversity monitoring in Australian rangelands, with particular reference to ants (2004, background): “Other invertebrate groups, such as spiders (Churchill 1997), grasshoppers (Andersen et al . 2001) and moths (McQuillan 1999; Kitching et al . 2000 ), have also been proposed as potentially useful indicators in Australia, but they likewise suffer from our poor knowledge of them (New 1999).”
Beta diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in an Andean montane rainforest (2003, background): “Since tropical geometrid moths are known as a group of mainly forest-dwelling insects, they respond sensitively to habitat alterations (e.g. Kitching et al., 2000; Beck et al., 2002).”
Saproxylic beetle assemblages related to silvicultural management intensity and stand structures in a beech forest in Southern Germany (2008, background): “It has the advantage of not requiring assumptions of normal distribution that are seldom entirely met with insect community data, even when transformed (Grove 2002a; Kitching et al. 2000).”
Bee diversity along a disturbance gradient in tropical lowland forests of south-east Asia (2001, background): “Secondly, insect taxa (including butterflies, tiger beetles and termites) are used increasingly as habitat or environmental quality indicators (Holloway & Barlow 1992; Pearson & Cassola 1992; Eggleton et al. 1996; Hamer et al. 1997; Hill 1999; Jones & Eggleton 2000; Kitching et al. 2000).”
Does butterfly diversity predict moth diversity? Testing a popular indicator taxon at local scales (2002, background): “Indeed, existing studies show only occasional support for the local-scale utility of indicator taxa (Murphy and Wilcox, 1986; Daily and Ehrlich, 1996; Duelli and Obrist, 1998; Lawton et al., 1998; Blair, 1999).”
Faunal composition of geometrid moths changes with altitude in an Andean montane rain forest (2003, background): “Geometrids are a relatively habitat-specific group of herbivorous insects and thus very suitable for ecological studies (for tropical geometrids: Intachat et al., 1997; Kitching et al., 2000; Beck et al., 2002).”
Terrestrial Arthropods as Indicators of Ecological Restoration Success in Coastal Sage Scrub (California, U.S.A.) (2003, background): “…conservation planning (Rosenberg et al. 1986; Kremen et al. 1993; Finnamore 1996) and many researchers have assessed habitat quality and measured habitat differences using arthropods (e.g., Niemelä et al. 1993; Pollet & Grootaert 1996; Rykken et al. 1997; Kitching et al. 2000; Gibb & Hochuli 2002).”
Restoration of a forest ecosystem: The effects of vegetation and dispersal capabilities on the reassembly of plant-dwelling arthropods (2005, background): “Also, there is a high congruency between herbivore and plant assemblages across landscapes (Yen, 1987; Kitching et al., 2000; Andersen et al., 2001).”
Determinants of diversity in afrotropical herbivorous insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): plant diversity, vegetation structure or abiotic factors? (2009, background): “Their potential as ‘biodiversity indicators’ has been extensively explored by studies in Southeast Asia (Holloway, 1985; Chey et al., 1997; Intachat et al., 1997, 1999a,b; Willott, 1999; Beck et al., 2002), South and Central America (Brehm et al., 2003b, 2007; Hilt et al., 2006), Australia (Kitching”
Dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) diversity and community structure across three disturbance regimes in eastern Amazonia (2005, methodology): “PCA is a valid method of differentiating species abundance between habitats when the number of taxonomic groups exceeds the number of replicates (Jüttner et al. 1996, Kitching et al. 2000).”