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A tropical rainforest canopy is arguably the most complex and poorly known ecosystem in the world. Basic description of the intricate trophic webs of the plant/herbivore/predator assemblages such canopies represent is in still-nascent stages. Here we apply contrasting approaches extant in the current literature to probe for the first time the insect community structure of one such Amazonian rainforest canopy.
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Farrell, B.D., Erwin, T.L. (1988). Leaf-Beetle community structure in an amazonian rainforest canopy. In: Jolivet, P., Petitpierre, E., Hsiao, T.H. (eds) Biology of Chrysomelidae. Series Entomologica, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3105-3_5
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