Tropical arthropod species, more or less?

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5987, 2010, Pages 41-42

  May, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DOMINANCE; EARTH; EUKARYOTE; HERBIVORY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH WORK; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL REGION;

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; CANOPY; EUKARYOTE; HERBIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; LUEHEA SEEMANNII; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY; TREE; VERTEBRATE; VIRUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY;

NEW GUINEA;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW GUINEA; PROBABILITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77954319372     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191058     Document Type: Short Survey

References (7)

1. A. J. Hamilton et al., Am. Nat. 176, 90 (2010).
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4. k(i) is the proportion of species, such as herbivorous beetles, using tree species k, out of a total of i different tree species used; see (3).
5. V. Y. Novotny et al., Nature 416, 841 (2002).
6. Model B acknowledges that some New Guinea tree genera are much more speciose than others. In three cases among the 56-tree data set (4), Hamilton et al. had more than one tree species per genus; they used a representative host and its associated beetle species (with separate randomization for each species).
7. See paragraph 5.4 from the UK House of Lords' Science and Technology Select Committee, 5th Report (2007-2008), Systematic and Taxonomy: Follow-up (HL Paper 162), which found that "The evidence we received about the willingness of the Research Councils to fund taxonomy was confused." The government's response said that "Research proposals including classical taxonomie approaches may have the best chance of success if they take account of (a) the hypothesis testing science that typifies responsive mode grants,..." (chapter 5, paragraph 7.19, item 6). For further discussion see www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/sctech/162/162.pdf.