Dissection of the Species-Area Relationship Among Wood-Boring Insects and Their Host Plants
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 128 (1), 35-46
- https://doi.org/10.1086/284537
Abstract
The species-area relationship between wood-boring insects and the geographic range of their host plants is derived from the tendency for wide-ranging plants to be a part of more wood-boring insect communities than plants with smaller geographic ranges. In contrast to the expectation of the area-per se hypothesis, plnats in a given forest that have large geographic ranges do not show richer wood-boring insect faunas than co-occuring plants with small ranges. The passive-sampling hypothesis can also be explored because sampling differences do not account for the pattern. Only the habitat-heterogeneity explanation for the species-area relationship is consistent with the data and analyses presented.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Trees as IslandsOikos, 1983
- The Peak in North American Ichneumonid Species Richness Lies Between 38 Degrees and 42 Degrees NEcology, 1981
- Morphology, Surface Temperatures, and Northern Limits of Columnar Cacti in the Sonoran DesertEcology, 1980
- The Statistics and Biology of the Species-Area RelationshipThe American Naturalist, 1979
- Surface Temperatures of Cacti‐‐Influences of Environmental and Morphological FactorsEcology, 1978
- The Conservation of Juniper: The Fauna of Food-Plant Island Sites in Southern EnglandJournal of Applied Ecology, 1977
- Ambrosia Fungi: Extent of Specificity to Ambrosia BeetlesScience, 1966
- Time and Space and the Variation of SpeciesEcology, 1960
- On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago.Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology, 1860