Seasonality of Litter Insects and Relationship with Rainfall in a Wet Evergreen Forest in South Western Ghats
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...While some invertebrates in primate habitats are present year-round, others, such as Lepidopteran larvae, can experience seasonal population explosions related to climatic variation (Janzen, 1973; Tauber et al., 1998; Campos et al., 2006; Isbell and Young, 2007; Anu et al., 2009)....
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...201 others, such as Lepidopteran larvae, can experience seasonal population explosions related to climatic variation (Janzen, 1973; Tauber et al., 1998; Campos et al., 2006; Isbell and Young, 2007; Anu et al., 2009)....
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...…capture of minor taxa (9 out of 24) among the different trap types are difficult to interpret because of their low frequency of occurrence and abundance possibly related to the low population densities of these taxa in the wet forests of the Western Ghats (Anu 2006; Vineesh 2007; Anu et al. 2009)....
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...Non–significant differences in the capture of minor taxa (9 out of 24) among the different trap types are difficult to interpret because of their low frequency of occurrence and abundance possibly related to the low population densities of these taxa in the wet forests of the Western Ghats (Anu 2006; Vineesh 2007; Anu et al. 2009)....
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...The pre-summer period was selected for cost estimation because in this period the highest ground dwelling arthropod abundance had been noted in the moist Western Ghats (Anu et al. 2009; Anu 2006; Vineesh 2007)....
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...As mentioned during winter other prey items, such as invertebrates, generally become less abundant (Scholtz and Holm 1986; Anu et al. 2012)....
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...Despite the reduction in abundance of insects during the cold winter periods (Scholtz and Holm 1986; Anu et al. 2012), invertebrates remained their dominant prey item in winter....
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...During winter the main prey items of G. tigrina mainly invertebrates, become less abundant (Scholtz and Holm 1986; Anu et al. 2009)....
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...…the tropical rain forests in the Western Ghats, a global hot spot of biodiversity and the only tropical forest ecoregion of the Indian Peninsula (Myers et al. 2000; WWF 2001) that is well known for regional variation in vegetation, rainfall patterns and topography (Nair 1991; Patwardhan and…...
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...10pp. Journal of Insect Science 9:46, available online: insectscience.org/9.46 Journal of Insect Science | www.insectscience.org 1...
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...However, quantitative studies investigating the seasonal variability of litter insect abundance and its link with rainfall are lacking from the tropical rain forests in the Western Ghats, a global hot spot of biodiversity and the only tropical forest ecoregion of the Indian Peninsula (Myers et al. 2000; WWF 2001) that is well known for regional variation in vegetation, rainfall patterns and topography (Nair 1991; Patwardhan and Asnani 2000)....
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...The Bray-Curtis similarity index (Bray and Curtis 1957) was used to compare the similarity between the insect communities from different seasons followed by hierarchical agglomerative Cluster analysis using Primer v5....
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...Therefore, the original evergreen character of the forests has changed to a semi-evergreen and deciduous condition (Champion and Seth 1968; Rodgers and Panwar 1988; Nair 1991)....
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...…and Windsor 1985), 2) a peak in abundance during the wet season of North Queensland, Australia (Frith and Frith 1990), Atlantic coastal forest, south-east Brazil (Develey and Peres 2000), East Arc Mountains, Tanzania (Burgess et al. 1999), Tambopata Reserve, south-east Peru (Pearson and…...
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"Seasonality of Litter Insects and R..." refers background in this paper
...…of food resources are the important factors in triggering seasonal activity of insects in tropical regions (Tauber and Tauber 1976; Denlinger 1986; Wolda 1988; Basset 1991; Tanaka 2000; Kai and Corlet 2002; Pinheiro et al. 2002; Nahrung and Allen 2004; Nakamura and Numata 2006; Anu 2006; Danks…...
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...Seasonal variation in abundance of tropical insects is a common phenomenon (Wolda 1988; Pinheiro et al. 2002)....
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...On average, activity patterns of tropical species tend to be longer, the percentage of species active around the year higher, and the seasonal peaks less well defined relative to temperate insects (Wolda 1988)....
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...The seasonality of litter insect abundance and its relationship with rainfall was analyzed in a wet evergreen forest on the windward side of south Western Ghats....
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...…and Allen 2004; Nakamura and Numata 2006; Anu 2006; Danks 2006; Vineesh 2007), however, the onset of rain is the major factor (Levings and Windsor 1982, Levings and Windsor 1985; Lowman 1982; Wolda and Denlinger 1984; Wolda 1988; Boinski and Fowler 1989; Frith and Frith 1990; Sabu et al. 2008)....
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