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Regional and local species richness of gall-inducing insects in two tropical rain forests in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2003

Ken Oyama
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM. Campus Morelia. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701. Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de la Huerta. Morelia, 58190, Michoacán, México
Miguel Angel Pérez-Pérez
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM. Campus Morelia. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701. Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de la Huerta. Morelia, 58190, Michoacán, México
Pablo Cuevas-Reyes
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM. Campus Morelia. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701. Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de la Huerta. Morelia, 58190, Michoacán, México
Rosaura Luna-Reyes
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM. Campus Morelia. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701. Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de la Huerta. Morelia, 58190, Michoacán, México

Extract

Tropical rain forests have a high richness of plant species. However, the richness of insect species associated with the forest canopy is still poorly known. Estimates of arthropod fauna have followed several approaches from surveys on a single or few trees (Erwin 1988,1990) to regional sampling of specific insect guilds such as gall-inducing insects (Fernandes & Price 1988, Lara & Fernandes 1996, Price et al. 1998).

Type
Brief Report
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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