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Spatial and temporal components of species diversity in Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera) communities of Indochinese montane rain forest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Vojtěch Novotný
Vojtěch Novotný
Affiliation:
Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Abstract

The Auchenorrhyncha community within the understorey of a montane monsoon rain forest in Vietnam is described. It was highly diverse, with 328 morphospecies in a sample of 1611 specimens. The community was variable in species composition with respect to space (between sites 1–5 km distant) and time (between early and late wet seasons). Differences in species composition attributable to spatial heterogeneity and to seasonal variation were of a comparable magnitude when examined by the CCA ordination. Auchenorrhyncha density, estimated by sweeping, was generally low, at 1 to 2 individuals m−3 of vegetation. There was a negative correlation between the species' population size in the early and the late wet seasons.

Keywords

Auchenorrhynchacommunityordinationrain forestseasonallyspecies diversityVietnam
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 93 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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