Isolation drives species gains and losses of insect metacommunities over time in a mountaintop forest archipelago

• Published in: Journal of biogeography Vol. 50; no. 12; pp. 2069 - 2083
• Main Authors: da Silva, Pedro Giovâni, Beirão, Marina do Vale, de Castro, Flávio Siqueira, Perillo, Lucas Neves, Camarota, Flávio, Solar, Ricardo R. C., Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson, Neves, Frederico de Siqueira
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Ants; Archipelagoes; Bees; Beetles; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biosphere; Brazil; Butterflies & moths; Coleoptera; Colonization; conservation areas; Dispersal; Dispersion; Dung; feces; Forests; geographical distribution; Homogenization; Insects; Islands; landscapes; mountains; Rare species; surveys; temporal variation; Vagile species; Brazil

AimWe evaluated the effects of forest island size, isolation and area in the landscape driving temporal changes of insect biodiversity in a mountaintop forest archipelago. We expected that (i) in smaller, less isolated forest islands, changes in insect composition are more prominent, primarily drive...