Qhov no tsis ntev los no Tshooj nyob rau hauv cov American Naturalist tau noj ob saib rau tej lub hom famously inflated kwv, ib txhia yuav mus siab li 100 plhom (Erwin, 1988). Kwv los tus sau phau ntawv uas qhia saum toj no projections 30 plhom muaj tshwm rau ntawm <0.00001. Lawv cov kwv yees li ntawm ntau yam yog yuav tsum sib 2.5 thiab 3.7 hom lab (nrog 90% qoob loo). Qhov no yog nkawd koj dog dig given tias cov kwv extraordinary tau raws hnyav ncawv extrapolation. Muaj kev cov nyom ntau yam nrug muaj feem luj ntau haiv neeg lus raws li arthropod tauj kuaj – daim ntawv no rov siv phytophagous (noj tsob nroj) kab rau kwv. Lawv yuav xyuam xim rau taw tes kom paub tias cov kev no tsis pab dab tsi rau kab tsis-phytophagous, tab sis xav tias lawv yuav ua tsoos biogeographic qauv ntawm. Qhov no yog ntawm lub tswvyim tshiab somewhat given tias thaum kuv nyob hauv kev kawm ntawv qib siab kuv twb qhia tias parasitoids tseem yog counterintuitively tsis ntau miv nyob rau cov teb chaws sov regions. No hypothesis yog ntau zaus dua tsis tau proven in the light of ntau leej niaj hnub taxonomic vib this cuav. Theej tau hais khov kho kuv pab ib tug txoj kev muaj nqi uas tus yog ib qhov parasitoid thaum lub UIUC. Hauv ntej, party things yog huab nyob rau hauv tej kev kawm tauj nrog 175,000 cryptic hom muab zais nrad loj radiating pawg xws li lub microgastrine Braconids (Hymenoptera) – sib npaug muaj nyob rau tseeb nyob zoo taxa.
Ib nthuav lus ntxiv txog cov ntawv yog Cov menyuamuas uas muaj lwm yam xwm le Lepidoptera toj assemblages. Lawv assumed uas ib) Lepidoptera txhua yam muaj nyob hauv cov nplooj saum toj thiab b) tias cov leps no phytophagous. Qhov no yog qhia meej ib xwm heev txhag cia given tias Lepidoptera tsis muaj nyob hauv cov nplooj saum toj thiab tsis yog tas nrho yog phytophagous. Hos kuv tsis muaj cov xovtooj ntawm tes, tej feem pua ntawm lep yuav tsum muaj lawm tsis txhob mus rau tej kwv. Kuv yuav mus tawm rau ib povtseg thiab pov plob uas tus sau phau ntawv (Novotny 2002) tsis txhob xam cov microlepidoptera morphospecies – thiab tej zaum yuav kwv yees li ntawm abundances nrog peb tamsim no taxonomic to taub. Tiam sis kuv tsis muaj qhov no 2002 ntawv, ces kuv kuj yuav tsis muaj tseeb. Siv cov Lepidoptera tooj (ntawm daim ntawv ntsuam xyuas tib yam li tus Coleoptera) muaj ntau haiv neeg ntiaj teb no lus ntawd kwv yees los ntawm Hamilton li. al. nyob ib ncig 8.5 tsheej lab hom arthropod.
Thaum kuv pom zoo li extraordinary kwv kaum tawm kaum tawm (los yog 175,000) tsheej lab ntawm cov hom arthropod yog ntshe tsis zoo; Kuv yog cov yeej thoj nam tias txoj kev soj ntsuam hais tias tias kwv sab kaum tawm lab tus ntoo hom yuav tau. Tus sau phau ntawv muaj tejyam uas muaj xws li kev tshawb fawb uas counterbalances lawv premise tias hom teb chaws sov muaj ib sab beta ntau haiv neeg lus (Novotny 2002, 2007). Nyob rau ntawm phau ntawv journal tib, Xwm 2007, Dyar li. al. tau qhia tias cov American tropics muaj ib tug ntau dua beta ntau haiv neeg lus tshaj yav assumed. Yog nws yuav hais tau tias kwv ntawm beta hauv cov australasian tropics no tsis muaj tseeb, lawv cov incompatible uas muaj hom assemblages ntawm neotropical forests. Tag nrho cov no hais lus rau cov teeb meem nyob rau extrapolating estimations ntawm hom kab hla cov teb chaws sov regions. Cov kwv yog los ntawm tej kab kuaj txog New Guinea, kab tias lawv tsis yog muaj kev cuam tshuam rau ntau haiv tiag tauj forests American, thiab cov nab npawb los yog hom twg muaj tsawg tsawg xwb.
Raws li tus xav zaum kawg, assesments feem ntau yeej teem nyob rau cov teb chaws sov raws. No mas, tas ib yam nkaus thiab tej zaum ntawd tag nrho txhua hom, nrog rau cov kab mob thiab archaea, yuav tau yooj yim tshaj kaum tawm lab tus. Tiam sis extrapolating cov zauv no precarious xub tshaj raws, tub huab vim tsis paub peb muaj.
