Mapping and understanding the diversity of insects in the tropics: past achievements and future directions

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/14:43886976

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12111" target="_blank" >10.1111/aen.12111</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mapping and understanding the diversity of insects in the tropics: past achievements and future directions

Original language description

Review mapping the status quo and future of tropical entomology. We still do not know how many insect species there are in tropical forests. The rate of species description peaked a century ago. Unfortunately, taxonomy ceased to be fashionable before ithad completed cataloguing insect diversity. Molecular information combined with web-based data dissemination promises to shorten the 20 years it takes on average for insect specimens to be described as new species. Our inability to enumerate tropical species has made estimates of their diversity popular. Plant-based estimates, multiplying the number of plant species by the number of insect species effectively specialized to them, have been used for the past 150 years for global insect diversity estimates and recently also for the first local rainforest diversity estimate of arthropods, at 25 000 species. Why are there so many insect species in tropical forests? Insect diversity may be driven by latitudinal trends in vegetation. The near

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Austral Entomology

ISSN

2052-1758

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

259-267

UT code for WoS article

000340501300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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