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Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest
2012; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 338; Issue: 6113 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.1226727
ISSN1095-9203
AutoresYves Basset, Lukáš Čížek, Philippe Cuénoud, Raphaël K. Didham, François Guilhaumon, Olivier Missa, Vojtěch Novotný, Frode Ødegaard, Tomas Roslin, Jürgen Schmidl, Alexey K. Tishechkin, Neville Winchester, David W. Roubik, Henri-Pierre Aberlenc, Johannes Bail, Héctor Barrios, Jon R. Bridle, Gabriela Castaño‐Meneses, Bruno Corbara, Gianfranco Curletti, Wesley Duarte da Rocha, Domir De Bakker, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Alain Déjean, Laura L. Fagan, Andreas Floren, R. L. Kitching, Enrique Medianero, Scott E. Miller, Evandro Gama de Oliveira, Jérôme Orivel, Marc A. A. Pollet, Mathieu Rapp, Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, Yves Roisin, Jesper B. Schmidt, Line Sørensen, Maurice Leponce,
Tópico(s)Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
ResumoAssessing Creepy Crawlies Arthropods are the most diverse group of terrestrial animal species, yet estimates of the total number of arthropod species have varied widely, especially for tropical forests. Basset et al. (p. 1481 , see the cover) now provide more reliable estimates of total arthropod species richness in a tropical rainforest in Panama. Intensive sampling of a half hectare of forest yielded just over 6000 arthropod species. Scaling up this result to the whole forest suggests that the total species diversity lies between 17,000 and 40,000 species.
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