Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Estimations of tropical insect diversity generally suffer from lack of known groups or faunas against which extrapolations can be made, and have seriously underestimated the diversity of some taxa. Here we report the intensive inventory of a four-hectare tropical cloud forest in Costa Rica for one year, which yielded 4332 species of Diptera, providing the first verifiable basis for diversity of a major group of insects at a single site in the tropics. In total 73 families were present, all of which were studied to the species level, providing potentially complete coverage of all families of the order likely to be present at the site. Even so, extrapolations based on our data indicate that with further sampling, the actual total for the site could be closer to 8000 species. Efforts to completely sample a site, although resource-intensive and time-consuming, are needed to better ground estimations of world biodiversity based on limited sampling.
Source: Communications Biology
Authors: Brian V. Brown, Art Borkent, Peter H. Adler, Dalton de Souza Amorim, Kevin Barber, Daniel Bickel, Stephanie Boucher, Scott E. Brooks, John Burger, Zelia L. Burington, Renato S. Capellari, Daniel N. R. Costa, Jeffrey M. Cumming, Greg Curler, Carl W. Dick, John H. Epler, Eric Fisher, Stephen D. Gaimari, Jon Gelhaus, David A. Grimaldi, John Hash, Martin Hauser, Heikki Hippa, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Mathias Jaschhof, Elena P. Kameneva, Peter H. Kerr, Valery Korneyev, Cheslavo A. Korytkowski, Giar-Ann Kung, Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte, Owen Lonsdale, Stephen A. Marshall, Wayne Mathis, Verner Michelsen, Stefan Naglis, Allen L. Norrbom, Steven Paiero, Thomas Pape, Alessandre Pereira-Colavite, Marc Pollet, Sabrina Rochefort, Alessandra Rung, Justin B. Runyon, Jade Savage, Vera C. Silva, Bradley J. Sinclair, Jeffrey H. Skevington, John O. Stireman III, John Swann, F. Christian Thompson, Pekka Vilkamaa, Terry Wheeler, Terry Whitworth, Maria Wong, D. Monty Wood, Norman Woodley, Tiffany Yau, Thomas J. Zavortink, Manuel A. Zumbado
Institutions: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Royal British Columbia Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Clemson University, Universidade de São Paulo, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Australian Museum, Collège MacDonald, McGill University, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, University of New Hampshire, Wright State University, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Triângulo Mineiro, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Mississippi State University, Field Museum of Natural History, Western Kentucky University, State of California, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Drexel University, University of California, Riverside, University of Turku, Instituto de Ecología, Station Linné, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Universidad de Panamá, University of Bergen, University of Guelph, Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Zurich, National Museum of Natural History, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Institute of Natural Sciences, Ghent University, US Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Bishop's University, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, University of Calgary, University of Helsinki, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Washington State University, University of California, Davis, National Biodiversity Institute
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,190
OpenAlex ID: W2806089652