In the last decades, there has been a considerable increase in literature concerning
ecological studies employing bait traps to capture butterflies. The growing interest in this …

Current knowledge of flower visitors and pollination in the Oriental Region is summarised.
Much less is known about pollination than seed dispersal and the coverage of habitats and …

1. Frequency of singletons–species represented by single individuals–is anomalously high
in most large tropical arthropod surveys (average, 32%). 2. We sampled 5965 adult spiders …

Tropical landscapes are dominated by land‐use systems, but their contribution to the
conservation of biodiversity is largely unknown. Since changes in biodiversity in response to …

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however
they have been relatively inaccessible until recently. This book represents an authoritative …

Summary 1 The impacts of habitat disturbance on biodiversity within tropical forests are an
area of current concern but are poorly understood and difficult to predict. This is due in part …

Tropical forests are among the most biodiverse biomes on the planet. Nevertheless,
quantifying the abundance and species richness within megadiverse groups is a significant …

Aim To evaluate frugivorous butterflies as indicators of forest disturbance in the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest. Location The study area is located in the municipality of Cotia, São Paulo …

Assessing the overall biological diversity of tropical rain forests is a seemingly
insurmountable task for ecologists. Therefore, researchers frequently sample selected taxa …

Tropical forest gaps are ephemeral and patchily distributed within forest areas and have
very different light environments compared with closed-canopy forest. We used fruit-baited …