The biodiversity of arthoropods from northern temperate ancient coastal rainforests: conservation lessons from the high canopy
Winchester NN and Ring RA. 1999. The biodiversity of arthoropods from northern temperate ancient coastal rainforests: conservation lessons from the high canopy. Selbyana. 20(2):268-275
From the Abstract: "The biodiversity crisis in global forest continues to be accelerated by habitat loss and consequent extinctions of floral and faunal species assemblages that cannot adjust to rapid, and often large-scale, habitat alternations. In an effort to record arthropod diversity in northern temperate rainforests we have studied canopy arthropods in a number of Vancouver Island rainforest types since 1992. Based on these findings we summarize results to answer the following questions: (1) Does guild proportionality vary among different, geographically separated ancient rainforests? (2) Does the numerical dominance of the predator guild by spiders change across these ancient rainforests? (3) Do these ancient rainforests act as repositories for arthropod biodiversity? Answers to these questions are needed to address the issues that surround the maintenance of biological diversity (form and function) in these ancient forests and, in a broader context, rainforests throughout the world."
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Winchester, Neville; Ring, Richard
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, arthropod (Arthropoda), Biodiversity, Canopy, coastal temperate rainforest