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Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

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Pondering imponderables may not be scientific, but all hypotheses have to start somewhere. When Terry Erwin (1982) published his estimate of 30 million living species of arthropods, up to 20 times that of previous estimates, much brouhaha ensued. His basic conclusion, however, “that current estimates of Arthropod species numbers [have been] grossly underestimated” is now common wisdom. Erwin’s estimate was a towering house of assumptions based on the diversity of beetles from the canopy of a single tree species in a seasonal forest in Panama. At the time, little was known of mite diversity in rainforest canopies, so mites played little role in his estimate, other than being part of the 60 % of described arthropods that are not beetles. One of Erwin’s assumptions was that the canopy fauna was twice as diverse as the forest floor fauna. As we learned in Chap. 6, the centres of mite diversity have long been thought to be in the soil and recent research seems to support that assumption (e.g. Young et al. 2012). Could mites on plants be twice as diverse as in the soil? (Fig. 8.1)

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