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Canopy Structure and Insect Community Distribution in A Tropical Rani Forest of West Kalimantan
Canopy Structure and Insect Community Distribution in A Tropical Rani Forest of West Kalimantan
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Fumito Koike1
of BiologicalScience,Facultyof Life and Environmental
Department Science,Shimane
Matsue690, Japan
University,
S. Riswan, T. Partomihardjo
CenterforBiology,LIPI, Bogor,Indonesia
Researchand Development
Figure4. Foliagedensity
(FD,a) andrelative (RLI,b) ofthestudied
lightintensity canopysection.
Back-
groundcontour
linesinb indicate
foliage distribution.
density is theexpected
Foliagedensity numberofleaves
bya 1 m line.Thespatial
penetrated resolution
offoliage was5 m by5 m inthehorizontal
distribution and
TheRLI obtained
vertical. byhemispherical
photographsrepresents ofthecanopy
openness abovetheposition.
of individual
Figure5. Spatialdistribution numbers contour
pertrap.Background linesindicate
foliage
distribution
density (Figure4a).
Table 1. Correlation
coefficients
betweenenvironmental
factors
andpertrapindividual
number ofmajor
taxa.
Thetotalindividual
number ineachtaxonwasusedinthisanalysis. variesinsomeorders
Foliagedensity
ofmagnitude,
butlogarithmscouldnotbe usedbecausefoliage
densityhaszerovalueatsomesites.The
transformation
xmwasusedtoconsider theeffect
oflowdensity foliage.
Relative
light
Taxon Height intensity Foliage
density
Thysanoptera 0.4706* 0.5881* -0.4011*
Hymenoptera 0.4535* 0.5183* -0.2864**
Hemiptera 0.1687 0.1441 -0.0421
Diptera -0.3238** -0.0948 -0.2387f
Coleoptera -0.4126* -0.2463t -0.1573
* P < 0.01,**P < 0.05,fP< 0.1.
individual
Table2. Average weredivided
pertrap.Insectcommunities
number A toD, with
intofourtypes,
TWINSPAN (Hill1979).
TypeA TypeB Type C Type D
Upper
openspace Insidecanopy Forestfloor Riversurface
Taxon (11sites) (32sites) (5 sites) (1 site)
Thysanoptera 5.5 1.0 1.2 0.0
Hymenoptera 17.6 8.8 5.8 0.0
Hemiptera 6.2 4.4 6.0 2.0
Lepidoptera 0.9 0.3 0.8 0.0
Diptera 29.7 20.0 37.2 154.0
Collembola 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.0
Coleoptera 8.7 8.5 22.4 98.0
Ephemeroptera 0.0 0.1 0.0 30.0
Trichoptera 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0
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