Despite two centuries of exploration, our understanding of factors determining the
distribution of life on Earth is in many ways still in its infancy. Much of the disagreement …

Studies of host specificity in tropical insect herbivores are evolving from a focus on insect
distribution data obtained by canopy fogging and other mass collecting methods, to a focus …

The abiotic and biotic gradients on mountains have enormous potential to improve our
understanding of species distributions, species richness patterns and conservation. Here we …

A major focus of research in spatial ecology over the past 25 years has been to understand
why the number of species varies geographically. The most striking, and perhaps best …

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …

▪ Abstract The diversity and composition of herbivore assemblages was a favored theme for
community ecology in the 1970s and culminated in 1984 with Insects on Plants by Strong …

Aim The biodiversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera) along a complete tropical elevational
gradient was studied for the first time. The patterns are described, and the role of geometric …

''La variedad de climas y la asombrosa diversidad de sus plantas y producciones, en los
reinos animal, vegetal y mineral, presenta una fuente de abundancia donde pueden …

Terrestrial arthropods are extremely important ecosystem components. The choice of best
approaches to collect the wide range of terrestrial arthropods has been a topic of long …

The cross-pollination of most alpine plants depends on insects, whose altitudinal distribution
is limited by temperature. However, although global warming is causing shifts in temporal …