Estimating global biodiversity: Tropical beetles and wasps send different signals

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 118-121

  Bartlett, R ^d   Pickering, J ^c   Gauld, I ^a   Windsor, D ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Parasitoids; Pimplinae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032916062     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00177.x     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Bartlett, R.P. (1997) Diversity, Phenology, and Sex Ratio of Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
2. Brown, B.V. & Feener, D.H. Jr (1995) Efficiency of two mass sampling methods for sampling phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) in a tropical biodiversity survey. Contributions in Science, 459, 1-10.
3. Colwell, R.K. & Coddington, J.A. (1994) Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B), 345, 101-118.
4. Erwin, T.L. (1982) Tropical forests: their richness in Coleoptera and other arthropod species. Coleopterists Bulletin, 36, 74-75.
5. Erwin, T.L. (1983) Beetles and other arthropods of the tropical forest canopies at Manaus, Brazil, sampled with insecticidal fogging techniques. Tropical Rain Forests: Ecology and Management (ed. by S. L. Sutton, T. C. Whitmore and A. C. Chadwick), pp. 59-75. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
6. Erwin, T.L. (1988) The tropical forest canopy - the heart of biotic diversity. Biodiversity (ed. by E. O. Wilson), pp. 123-129. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
7. Erwin, T.L. (1997) Biodiversity at its utmost: tropical forest beetles. Biodiversity II (ed. by M. L. Reaka-Kudla, D. E. Wilson and E. O. Wilson), pp. 27-40. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC.
8. Erwin, T.L. & Scott, J.C. (1980) Seasonal size patterns, trophic structure, and richness of Coleoptera in the tropical arboreal ecosystem: the fauna of the tree Luehea seemannii Triana and Planch in the Canal Zone of Panama. Coleopterists Bulletin, 34, 305-322.
9. Gaston, K.J. (1991) The magnitude of global insect species richness. Conservation Biology, 5, 283-296.
10. Gaston, K.J., Gauld, I.D. & Hanson, P. (1996) The size and composition of the hymenopteran fauna of Costa Rica. Journal of Biogeography, 23, 105-113.
11. Gauld, I.D. (1991) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 47, 1-589.
12. Gauld, I.D., Ugalde, J. & Hanson, P.E. (1998) Guia de los pimplinos (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) de Costa Rica. Revista Biologia Tropical, 46 (Suppl. 1), 1-189.
13. Hanson, P.E. & Gauld, I.D. (1995) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
14. Hespenheide, H.A. (1994) An overview of faunal studies. La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Tropical Rain Forest (ed. by L. A. McDade, K. S. Bawa, H. A. Hespenheide and G. S. Hartshorn), pp. 238-243. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
15. Johnson, M.S. & Chaffee, D.R. (1973) An inventory of the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Belize. Land Resource Study, 14. pp. 1-87. Overseas Development Administration, Land Resources Division, Surbiton, U.K.
16. Kaiser, J. (ed.) (1997) Smoky Mountains All-Taxa Survey proposed. Science, 278, 1871.
17. Leigh, E.G. & Wright, S.J. (1990) Barro Colorado Island and tropical biology. Four Neotropical Forests (ed. by A. H. Gentry), pp. 28-47. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
18. May, R.M. (1988) How many species are there on Earth? Science, 241, 1441-1449.
19. May, R.M. (1992) How many species inhabit the Earth? Scientific American, 267, 42-48.
20. McGowan, A.L. (1996) Diversity and Seasonality of Aleiodes and Rogas (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Two Panamanian Forests. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
21. Stork, N.E. (1988) Insect diversity: facts, fiction, and speculation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 35, 321-337.
22. Stork, N.E. (1997) Measuring global biodiversity and its decline. Biodiversity II (ed. by M. L. Reaka-Kudla, D. E. Wilson and E. O. Wilson), pp. 41-68. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC.
23. Thomas, C.D. (1990) Fewer species. Nature, 347, 237.
24. Wilson, E.O. (1988) The current state of biological diversity. Biodiversity (ed. by E. O. Wilson), pp. 3-18. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.