Global homeostatic forces shape the composition of a hyperdiverse tropical insect fauna
Fredrik Ronquist, Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, Laura Jacoba Adriana van Dijk, Robert Goodsell, Bruno C Bellini, Gavin Broad, Nerivania N Godeiro, Emma Granqvist, Tilia Haeggstroem, John Heraty, Seraina Klopfstein, Greg P A Lamarre, Fabian A Lundell, John Sundh, Claudia C Weber, , Ayco J. M. Tack
The paper estimates Madagascar's insect fauna contains at least 250,000 species, most unrecorded, and finds global homeostatic forces, not lineage composition, shape its ecological similarity to temperate forests.
bioRxiv · Nov 6, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology