Plant diversity accurately predicts insect diversity in two tropical landscapes
Kai Zhang, Siliang Lin, Yinqiu Ji, Chenxue Yang, Xiaoyang Wang, Chunyan Yang, H. Wang, Haisheng Jiang, Rhett Harrison, Douglas W. Yu
The paper uses metabarcoding to show plant diversity accurately predicts insect diversity in two tropical landscapes, supporting their use as proxies for conservation and ecological monitoring.
bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2016Ecology