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Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest
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Assessing 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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Metadata
- Authors
- Basset, Y., Cizek, L., Cuénoud, P., Didham, R. K., Guilhaumon, F., Missa, O., Novotny, V., Ødegaard, F., Roslin, T., Schmidl, J., Tishechkin, A. K., Winchester, N. N., Roubik, D. W., Aberlenc, H.-P., Bail, J., Barrios, H., Bridle, J. R., Castaño-Meneses, G., Corbara, B., Curletti, G., Duarte da Rocha, W., De Bakker, D., Delabie, J. H. C., Dejean, A., Fagan, L. L., Floren, A., Kitching, R. L., Medianero, E., Miller, S. E., Gama de Oliveira, E., Orivel, J., Pollet, M., Rapp, M., Ribeiro, S. P., Roisin, Y., Schmidt, J. B., Sørensen, L., & Leponce, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2012-12-14
- Volume
- 338
- Issue
- 6113
- Pages
- 1481-1484
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2139183630
- Cited by
- 621
- References
- 59
- FWCI
- 31.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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