Insect Populations

Abstract

Insects, whether solitary or social, are distributed in many ways across landscapes. Some are virtually ubiquitous across broad ecological panoramas, others are much more localised. And abundance may differ markedly across the distributional range of a species. Restrictions may be geographical – creating patterns of regional or more local endemism – or ecological, depending on the patchiness of critical resources within any given biotope or place, or reflect both of these.