Air-borne arthropod fall-out on Anak Krakatau and a possible pre-vegetation pioneer community
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- 19 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Vol. 322 (1211) , 471-479
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1988.0139
Abstract
Catches of arthropods in white water traps on ash-covered lava flows on Anak Krakatau, Indonesia, in August 1985 included more than 70 species representing 10 orders: Araneae, Collembola, Orthoptera, Dermaptera, Psocoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera. Diptera and Hymenoptera made up more than half the total catch. The implications for colonization of Anak Krakatau by air-borne arthropods are discussed, and the possibility that there is a small resident community depending on aeolian debris is noted.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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