Life history induces markedly divergent insect responses to habitat loss.

ABSTRACT: Habitat loss poses a major threat to tropical biodiversity, but its effects on distinct taxa remain unclear. Furthermore, most studies have failed to investigate the effects of habitat loss for taxa with contrasting life histories, potentially underestimating those impacts. Here, using an unprecedented sampling effort, we investigated the effects of forest amount on the diversity, composition and size structure of Amazonian terrestrial and aquatic insects. We sampled the insect fauna across Earth's largest man-made forest archipelago 36 years after impoundment (Balbina reservoir, Central Amazon, Brazil) using 236 sticky traps placed on forest islands, the open-water matrix and adjacent continuous forests. Using fivefold cross-validated computer vision models, we identified and measured 22,

SUBMITTER: Colares LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12775549 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature