Local versus regional species richness in tropical insects: One lowland site compared with the island of New Guinea

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 445-451

  Novotny, Vojtech ^a,b,d   Missa, Olivier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aphrophoridae; Cercopidae; Flatidae; Herbivores; Museum collections; Papua New Guinea; Rainforest; Ricaniidae; Species diversity; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INSECT; SAMPLING BIAS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

APHROPHORIDAE; CERCOPIDAE; CERCOPOIDEA; FLATIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MACHAEROTIDAE; RICANIIDAE;

EID: 0033673720     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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