Species Composition and Trophic Structure of
Insect Communities in Texas Prairies
Guy N. Cameron and Edwin H. Bryant
Key words: community structure, conservation, entomofauna, prairie.
Cameron, Guy N., and Edwin H. Bryant. 1999. Species composition and trophic structure of insect communities in Texas prairies. Prairie Naturalist 31(4):221-242.
This resource should be cited as:Cameron, Guy N., and Edwin H. Bryant. 1999. Species composition and trophic structure of insect communities in Texas prairies. Prairie Naturalist 31(4):221-242. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/txinsect/index.htm (Version 23OCT2001).
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Methods
- Study areas
- Sampling protocol
- Results
- Taxonomic structure
- Similarity Analyses
- Trophic Structure
- Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- Literature Cited
Tables and Figures
- Table 1 -- Number of families, species, and total number of individuals for each order, as well as proportion of unique species, species diversity, and equitability in eight study sites in coastal prairie.
- Table 2 -- Number of families, species, and total number of individuals for each order, as well as proportion of unique species, species diversity, and equitability in eight study sites in central prairie.
- Table 3 -- Maximally nonsignificant subsets of sites identified by log-likelihood ratio tests for the central prairie.
- Table 4 -- Number of species and percent of total fauna in each trophic level for all study sites in coastal prairie.
- Table 5 -- Number of species and percent of total fauna in each trophic level for all study sites in central prairie.
- Table 6 -- Maximally nonsignificant subsets for trophic categories among sites identified by log-likelihood ratio tests for central prairie.
- Table 7 -- Maximally nonsignificant subsets
of trophic categories between central and coastal prairie.
- Figure 1 -- Dendogram displaying results of cluster analysis of the similarity matrix among sites based upon sweep samples in coastal prairie.
- Figure 2 -- Dendogram displaying results of cluster analysis of the similarity matrix among sites based upon sweep samples in central prairie.
Guy N. Cameron* and Edwin H. Bryant, Program in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5513
* Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221.
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