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INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
卷 9, 期 1, 页码 74-86出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12144
关键词
Arctic; diversity; Ichneumonidae; idiobiont; koinobiont; latitudinal gradient; temperate; tropical
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Sustainable Forest Management Network
- Alberta Conservation Association Grants in Biodiversity
- NSERC
- Alberta Ingenuity student scholarships
- NSERC Discovery grant
- Kone Foundation, Finland
1. While the diversity of most taxa increases from temperate to tropical regions, the parasitoid wasp family Ichneumonidae has often been cited as an example of an anomalous diversity pattern with their highest diversity at mid-latitudes. A rich body of literature has attempted to explain this pattern and provide hypothesised mechanisms, and recent studies have suggested that the pattern may result from biases in the data. 2. Previous studies of patterns in ichneumonid diversity have mined catalogue data or have compared collections from tropical and temperate areas across a limited range of latitudes. Few studies are available that include species richness for all subfamilies, and none have been from regions above 60 degrees N. 3. To increase the number of datasets available to address these patterns, we first tested the assumption that subfamily abundance can be a strong predictor of species richness. We then compared abundances of ichneumonid subfamilies in field collections from a wide range of latitudes (25 degrees S-81 degrees N), and used generalised additive models to evaluate characteristics of the subfamilies as predictors of the observed patterns. 4. We demonstrate a wide variety of latitudinal patterns, reflecting the ecological variation between subfamilies. In addition, our models show that host taxon and subfamily identities are better predictors of the shape of the relationship between subfamily abundance and latitude than other characteristics that have been previously hypothesised to be important, including parasitoid life history strategy and body size.
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