Why so many apparently rare beetles in Chilean temperate rainforests?

Species abundance curves were calculated from data sets collected by fogging 52 trees in Nothofagus forest (~46000 specimens) and 24 trees in Araucaria forest (~15000 specimens) in Chile. Neither data set fi tted the standard species abundance models. Like similar data sets collected from tropical forests, there were too many species represented by single specimens. The proposal that these were vagrants normally found on other tree species was not supported as, unlike tropical forests, Nothofagus forests are not diverse, often consisting of single species stands. Examination of three assumptions of the most parsimonious equilibrium models showed them to be false. Between them the observations of undersampling bias, community disequilibria and combining data from different feeding guilds with different species abundance curves are likely to be suffi cient to explain the divergence of data for large speciose beetle communities from the predictions of any of the equilibrium models. Until these three factors can be fully accounted for and residual divergence detected, there is no necessity to propose further, more complex, mechanisms to explain such data sets. Estimated values of alpha and Simpson D were shown to be strongly sample size dependent, affecting their value as estimators of biological diversity.


INTRODUCTION
There is a need to develop and test the simplest possible models in ecology using the most parsimonious set of assumptions before adding fur ther variables leading to more complex explanations of data sets (e.g., Gotelli & Graves 1996, Hubbell 2001, Magurran 2005, Coddington et al. 2009).The need for such an approach is evident when exploring the assembly r ules predicting the relative abundances of species in a community.In some cases one or more of the available models (e.g., Hubbell 2001, Magurran 2004) has been found to fi t the patterns seen in fi eld data sets.(e.g., Volkov et al. 2003, Chave 2004, Wooton 2005).Some data sets, however, do not fi t any of the models, with tropical rainforest beetle communities providing a notable example (e.g., Morse et al. 1988, Hubbell 2001).Such communities typically have a few species that are more common than any of the models predict and a ver y large number of rare species.The failure of any of the proposed simple models to fi t the observed distribution highlights the limitations of our present understanding of community ecology and has led to more complex suggestions as to reasons for such mismatches (Sugihara 1980, Tokeshi 1996, Harte et al. 1999, Hubbell 2001, Magurran & Henderson 2003) rather than a more critical examination of the assumptions underlying the present models or the nature of the data sets used.
The issue of excessive numbers of species represented by single specimens in samples (singletons) has been addressed by exploring the null hypothesis that the failure of such data sets to fi t any of the standard models is due to bias introduced by undersampling (McGill 2003, Coddington et al. 2009).They also noted that intensity (average number of individuals per species in a sample) is commonly very low in arthropod studies (4-70 in beetle studies; Coddington et al. 2009).For their study of a tropical spider community, they estimated that a sampling intensity of 340 was needed to approach an adequate sample for estimating the shape of the species abundance curve in a local community.Fur ther, non-parametric estimators of species numbers (ACE, ICE, Chao 1; defi ned in Magurran 2004) give serious underestimates of the real number when there is undersampling and that about three quarters of the species in the community need to be sampled before the confi dence interval of the estimator includes the true number of species (Walther & Morand 1998).As a consequence, if the sample size is too small then the estimates of the number of species made using ACE, ICE or Chao 1 will vary with sample size, instead on being independent of sample size.
A second possible explanation of the anomalous shape of the species abundance curve for tropical beetles would question the validity of the assumption of most models that the communities are in equilibrium.Communities in early successional stages or in some cases, stressed, have cur ves similar to those found for tropical beetle communities (a few ver y common species and a long tail of rare species e.g., Gray 1979, Kaiser et al. 2000).Possible causes of disequilibria in local communities include them being fugitive communities (with constantly changing membership (Azarbayjani et al. 1999) resulting, for example, from common species being over whelmed by predators or parasitoids); having clumped distributions (due, for example, to the breeding structure of insect populations or the patchy distribution of resources (Longino et al. 2002)); being subjected to changing environmental conditions (for example, the ef fects of ecological dif ferences between climatic conditions in dif ferent years (e.g., Azarbayjani et al. 1999); being subjected to edge effects (Ewers & Didham 2008); or having insuffi cient time since establishment to have reached equilibrium (Hurtt & Pacala 1995).Whatever the reason, the assumption that the obser ved species abundance cur ves reflect stable communities in equilibrium needs to be questioned.
The unified neutral theor y and community apportionment models assume that all species in a modelled community belong to the same trophic level.A third possible explanation then of the divergence of the abundance distribution in field data from predictions challenges the assumption that all species in the community considered belong to the same trophic level and that consequently the obser ved cur ve is that of a single community rather than the sum of a series of independent, and dif ferent, species abundance cur ves (Hubbell 2001).
The usual, more complex, explanation of anomalous tropical beetle data is based on the obser vation that tropical forests contain a ver y diverse array of tree species.Stork (1997) proposed that the misfit of his data to models is due to the presence on a tree, at low frequency, of transient specimens of beetle species normally found on other host plant species in the highly diverse flora of tropical forest (see also Novotny & Basset 2000, Longino et al. 2002, Magurran & Henderson 2003).
Most studies of the community structure of highly diverse faunas are of tropical ar thropod faunas, commonly beetle faunas.Our knowledge of community structures of temperate faunas is fragmentar y (Hammond et al. 1997, Arias et al. 2008, Sobek et al. 2009).As a consequence, the analysis of a temperate beetle fauna data set collected in a similar way to earlier tropical data sets would be of interest.
This paper describes relevant attributes of such a data set which consists of the relative abundances of 938 beetle species collected by fogging 76 trees in the temperate rain forests of Chile.It explores possible explanations of community str ucture, by testing the three assumptions described above of the most parsimonious models and also examines the more complex explanation of fered of the previously obser ved lack of fit of tropical rainforest beetle communities to predictions.

Assumption 1: If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to undersampling
The intensity of sampling will be relatively low.As well, less than three quarters of the predicted species will have been collected and estimates of species numbers obtained using standard estimators (ACE, ICE, MMM, Chao 1; Colwell 2005) will increase with increasing intensity/sample size instead of being independent of sample size.

Assumption 2: If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to community disequibria
The relatively recent re-establishment of the Chilean forests of the Andean foothills after the last glacial period (14 000 years BP), unlike the long-established coastal forests, of fers one possible oppor tunity to detect a disequilibrium (Ashworth & Hoganson 1993).If recovery to equilibrium is slow (Harte et al. 1999), we would expect the Andean foothill metapopulations to be less diverse and further from equilibrium than those in coastal forests that were not wiped out by glaciation.
If disequilibrium is due to the ephemeral clustering of sets of species at a particular time and location, then sampling the same location on occasions separated by several years should give a pattern where samples from the same year are more similar than samples from different years.
Assumption 3: If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to species belonging to different trophic levels being treated as a single 'community' The unified neutral theor y and community apportionment models assume that all species in the community considered belong to the same trophic level.In fact, the beetles collected in the present study belong to a range of dif ferent feeding guilds and it is known that the community str uctures of these guilds dif fer (Arias et al. 2008).If the analyses described above are repeated with beetles from dif ferent feeding guilds considered separately then the apparent excess of singletons should disappear.

The presence of excessive numbers of rare beetle species in tropical forests is due to the presence of vagrants coming from other species of host trees
The structure of the temperate Chilean forests is different to that found in tropical rainforests, with only a relatively low diversity of host plants present in an area (McQuillan 1993).If Stork's explanation, that the large number of singletons in the tropical beetle community he studied is due to vagrant specimens of species living on other tree species, is true (Stork 1997), the limited number of tree species in Chilean temperate forests would result in a much smaller pool of vagrants and the beetle community would not include the large number of rare species seen in samples from tropical forests.

Singletons, on average, will have a larger body size than more common species
As well as the issue of the adequacy of the assumptions of the simpler theories, the data set of fers the oppor tunity to explore another matter related to relative species abundance.Coddington et al. (2009) observed that the average size of species represented by singletons in their spider study was larger than that of all species sampled.This result is consistent with obser vations made on many groups (e.g., Lawton 1990).

METHODS
The community structures of the coleopteran faunas found on separate trees in Chilean Araucaria and Nothofagus forests has been analysed by Arias et al. (2008).The material was collected by canopy fogging and they provide details of the collecting, sorting and identification methods used.In the present study, the sample set of 29 trees analysed in Arias et al. (2008) was increased to include material from 24 Araucaria (Araucaria araucana (Molina)) trees and 52 Nothofagus trees through the addition of data from more years..The material was collected over summer in six years between 2001 and 2008 and was taken from forests in both the Andean foothills and the coastal ranges between the latitudes of 37° and 42° S in Chile.The Nothofagus trees were of a combined data set from the ver y similar Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.)Blume, N. obliqua (Birb.)Blume, and N. nitida (Phil.)Krasser.Cluster analysis of the Jacquard Indices for these faunas showed the faunas of the different Nothofagus tree species were interspersed and there was no evidence that required them to be analysed separately in this analysis (Arias et al. (2008) and unpublished data).
Estimates of richness and diversity as number of individuals (N), obser ved number of species (S obs ), predicted number of species (ACE, ICE, MMM, Chao 1), intensity (N/S obs ), alpha and Simpson D were calculated using Estimate S (Colwell 2005).An estimate of the observed shape of the metacommunity curve was obtained by combining all the fi eld samples (Hubbell 2001).Values for the fundamental biodiversity number (θ, Hubbell 2001) and the migration rate (m) from the metacommunity into local communities were calculated from this cur ve using maximum likelihood methods (TeTame, Chave & Jabot 2006).The predicted shape of the logseries and truncated lognormal curves were calculated following Magurran (2004) and the shape predicted by neutral theory following Hubbell & Borda de Agua (2004).Gotelli & Colwell (2001) highlight the issue of comparing estimates developed using unequal number of individuals and data is presented for approximately equal numbers of individuals when relevant.
The size (as volume) of specimens of each species was estimated by multiplying the median length, height and width of up to (and preferably) three specimens of a species.Not all species however were measured.

RESULTS
Summaries of the basic parameters of the Nothofagus and Araucaria beetle communities studied are given in Table 1 and Fig. 1.The general attributes of the communities in the two forest types are consistent with those reported by Arias et al. (2008).The observed and predicted number of species found in the Nothofagus forest are much higher than those found in the Araucaria forest.The species accumulation cur ves are not approaching asymptotes (Fig. 1).

If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to undersampling
Arias et al. ( 2008) questioned the adequacy of the predictions of total species diversity they obtained because of the variation in the predictions with sample size.With the addition of data from more samples, the predicted number of species on Araucaria for example has changed from the 168 observed and 211 predicted (Chao 1) species on ten trees in Arias et al. (2008) to 296 obser ved and 373 predicted on 24 trees.Examination of Fig. 1 shows that, even with the larger sample sizes, none of the predictors of the number of species have stabilised, and they continue to rise with increasing sample size.While the propor tion of species predicted that were actually sampled is estimated to be approximately 80 % (Table 1) and, therefore above the minimum recommended level allowing the use of the estimators (Walther & Morand 1998), the predictions have not stabilised.The absolute number of singletons rises until the 49 th tree and then begins to drop in the Nothofagus forest, though the number of doubletons continues to increase.In the Araucaria forest the numbers continue to rise through the 24 trees sampled.The number of doubletons steadily increases with sample size in both cases.The intensity of sampling (55 and 54; Table 1) is in the high range for published studies (4-70) but below that suggested by Coddington et al. (2009;340+) for a tropical spider community to avoid undersampling.

If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to community disequibria
The shapes of the obser ved cur ves and the fitted logseries and tr uncated log normal models are shown in Fig. 2. It can be seen that for neither forest type do the predicted curves fi t the fi eld data; there are always too many singletons (fi t to logseries, adjacent cells below fi ve combined; Nothofagus forest [Χ 2 9 = 84.2P = 0.025] and Araucaria forest [Χ 2 10 = 105.7 P < 0.001]).The observed curve is not intermediate between the logseries and lognormal cur ves, as is commonly observed, but more extreme.Consequently, the fi t of the fi eld data to the  1) and continue to rise as the number of samples increases.The estimates of migration rates from the metacommunities into local communities under neutral assumptions are similar.
The diversities found in coastal versus Andean foothill forests are shown in Table 2.The level of diversity in Nothofagus forests as obser ved species, predicted species, alpha, Simpson D and species per tree are all higher in the coastal forest.Given that the estimates are not independent of sample size (Fig. 1) the data for the larger sample in each case was reanalysed to show the average values (over fi fty runs) for an approximately equal number of individuals to the smaller sample.The patterns of results were unchanged.For the Araucaria forests, obser ved species, alpha, Simpson D and species per tree are all higher in the coastal forest, however the predicted number of species varies radically between estimators.
Examination of samples taken from the same location in the same or different years shows incomplete clustering within years (Arias et al. 2008).For the largest data set from a single location, taken at Malalcahuello on Araucaria in four separate years (Fig. 3), it can be seen that the only signifi cant clustering present is within years.There is no evidence of the maintenance of patterns of diversity in a local community between years.

Community structure will differ with trophic level
Data sets developed by subdividing the fauna into feeding guilds (Arias et al. 2008) were analysed (Table 3; Fig. 4).It can be seen that there are significant dif ferences between the community parameters of the dif ferent guilds but little consistency between the patterns seen in Araucaria and Nothofagus forests.The presence of higher diversity in the Nothofagus community than the Araucaria community is found in all guilds.Comparison of the Nothofagus data with the predictions from the fi tted logseries cur ve showed that, when analysed in the Pearson classes 1, 2 and 3+ by Chi squared tests (that is, testing for an excess of singletons and doubletons), there were no signifi cant divergences from predicted for any of the feeding guilds, that is, there is not a signifi cant excess of singletons in the sample.However the combined data was highly divergent (P < 0.0001; Fig. 2) when analysed in the same way.The data set for Araucaria forest was insuffi cient to allow an equivalent analysis.

The presence of excessive numbers of rare beetle species in tropical forests is due to the presence of vagrants coming from other species of host trees
Comparison of the temperate rain forest data with a set of tropical rainforest data (Stork 1997) (Table 2; Fig. 4) shows that the species abundance cur ves have generally similar forms with several ver y common species and long tails of singletons.However the number of tropical trees analysed is much fewer and the intensity of sampling is much lower while the predicted number of species and the number of singletons is much greater.A plot of log % singletons against log intensity (Fig. 5) shows that the point for the tropical rainforest beetle data lies just below the regression line for the Nothofagus data.If a Nothofagus forest was sampled with an intensity similar to that of the Borneo study, (intensity of 5 rather than 42) then an estimated 60 % rather than 58 % singletons found in the Borneo forest would have been obser ved.This is contrar y to the prediction that many more singletons would be expected in a tropical forest sample than in a temperate one with little floral diversity.A comparison of the community structures of Borneo, Andean and coastal forests.'total:' values for all trees combined, 'matching:' mean values for a subset of trees providing a sample of approximately equivalent number of individuals to that in the other area (sampling bootstrapped 50 times).*These numbers are identical entirely by chance.

DISCUSSION
The beetle diversity in Nothofagus forest is much higher than that in Araucaria forest, whether measured as obser ved number of species, alpha, θ or Simpson D (Table 1).
The intensity (specimens per species) is similar in the two forests as is the estimated migration rates from metacommunities to local communities.On single trees, the number of species and specimens are much lower on Araucaria than Nothofagus.There is little doubt that the communities in the two forest types are signifi cantly different.I t i s p o s s i b l e t h a t t h e d i f f e r e n t distributions are due to dif ferent attributes o f t h e u n d e r l y i n g t r e e s c o m m u n i t i e s .However, both Nothofagus dombeyi and Ajuste observado de los datos de la comunidad local de coleópteros a una curva acumulada de abundancia de especies desarrolladas a partir de modelos usando la curva de logseries pronosticada.Relación entre las muestras colectadas en una localidad específi ca durante 4 años.La medida de Distancia/Similaridad es una distancia Canberra con el uso de Saitou and Nei Neighbour Joining.Las líneas más anchas identifi can las conexiones de > 50 %.The percentage of species collected (S obs / S pred ) should have been large enough to allow the standard predictors to be used (Walther & Morand 1998).However, the estimations have not stabilised.The dif ferent estimators give dif fer ent values for the pr edicted number of species, with the Hubbell estimate (Table 1) being much higher than the other estimators.It might be possible to use the estimates as the lower bound of the number of species likely to be present; however this can be ver y misleading.Arias et al. ( 2007), using the Chao 1 estimator and 12 348 specimens, give the estimated number of species in the Nothofagus forest to be 407 (362-481), while the extended study presented here gives 1007 (962-1070).

Araucaria araucana have comparatively h i g h l e v e l s o f a l l o z y m e p o l y m o r p h i s m (H
Commonly used surrogates of biological diversity (alpha, Simpson D) are also strongly affected by sample size, for example, alpha for the Nothofagus beetle community varies from 21 for a single tree sample, 60 for fi ve trees combined, to 146 for 52 trees.Such sample size dependence makes them useless as estimators of biological diversity.
Assumptions of the more parsimonious models of community str ucture described above, as well as the more complex explanation offered of the previously observed lack of fi t of tropical rainforest beetle communities to predictions, can now be explored.

If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to undersampling
The prediction that standard estimators would increase with increasing sample size is confi rmed (Fig. 1) even though the proportion sampled has reached approximately 80 % (Table 1) of the predicted number of species (Fig. 1) and the estimations should have stabilised.The intensity of sampling, about 55, is comparable to values in other large studies (listed in Coddington et al. 2009).The number of singletons rises until the 49 th tree and then begins to drop in the Nothofagus forest, though the number of doubletons continues to increase.In the Araucaria forest the numbers continues to rise through the 24 trees sampled.It is clear that even with collections from 52 trees, undersampling is a signifi cant problem and contributes to the large number of singletons observed.

If samples of the Chilean beetle community include a large number of rare species, this is due to community disequibria
The re-establishment of the forests of the Andean foothills after the last glacial period provides an opportunity to detect long term disequilibria.If so, we would expect the Andean foothill metapopulations to be less diverse and further from equilibrium than those in coastal forests that were not wiped out by glaciation.Ajuste de los datos observados de la comunidad local de coleópteros (extraído de Stork 1997) y cada grupo trofi co de los bosques de Nothofagus a las curva de abundancia de especies desarrolladas a partir de los modelos usando la curva logseries pronosticada.
in Nothofagus forests, Andean diversity is lower than coastal diversity after 14000 years.Hurtt & Pacala (1995) showed that communities could remain in disequilibrium indefinitely when dispersal and recruitment are limited.In the present case the immigration of species from the metapopulation into a local population was estimated, under neutral theory, to be 0.003 per generation for both forest types.
If disequilibrium is due to clustering of sets of species at a par ticular location in a par ticular year, then sampling the same location in the same or different years should Plot de regresión del log % singleton comparado con el log de intensidad para muestras de bosques de Nothofagus (X).Se muestra el punto para los coleópteros de comunidades tropicales (Stork 1997) (+) el cual está por debajo de la curva de regresión de la línea de los datos de Nothofagus, no muy lejos de la línea pronosticada.

Community structure will differ with trophic level
The unified neutral theor y and community apportionment models assume that all species in the community considered belong to the same trophic level, that is, compete for the same resources (Hubbell 2001).When the analyses are repeated with beetles from different feeding guilds considered separately, the higher overall biodiversity obser ved in Nothofagus forest relative to Araucaria forest is found consistently in all trophic groups (Table 3).The relative level of diversity between trophic groups dif fers markedly in the two forest types and shows no consistent pattern other than the predators being the most diverse group in both cases.The null hypothesis of a single community with a single set of diversity parameters is not suppor ted.Tests of the data for each feeding guild separately shows that there is no signifi cant divergence from expected for the singleton and doubleton classes in any case, unlike the combined data set.The abnormal statistics for the overall beetle community is at least in part due to the combination of a series of data sets with markedly different ecological characteristics.

The presence of excessive numbers of rare beetle species in tropical forests is due to the presence of vagrants coming from other species of host trees
The parameters for Borneo rainforest beetles are summarised in Table 2 and Fig. 3.It can be seen that there are more obser ved and predicted species even with a much smaller sample size.It is also clear that a much higher proportion of singletons were collected.However Coddington et al. ( 2009) have pointed out that proportionately more singletons will be collected, the lower the intensity of sampling (here, 5 in the Bor neo sample; 55 in the Chilean samples) If the value for the Borneo data is plotted on the regression of sampling intensity against the number of singletons for the Nothofagus data, to correct for the different intensities (Fig. 5), it is apparent that relatively fewer rather than the predicted more singletons were collected in Borneo.Thus there is no evidence in our comparison to support the hypothesis that tropical rainforest communities contain more singletons than temperate rainforest communities, even thought the plant show clustering of samples within years.Fig. 3 shows such a pattern, with the species from samples taken in the Araucaria forest at a single location near Malalcahuello on Araucaria in four separate years, being more similar within years than between years.The type III sur vivorship cur ve typical of insects (i.e.large numbers of offspring with low average survival rates, compared to the type I pattern of few offspring and relatively high sur vival rates seen in terrestrial ver tebrates) and a non-normal distribution of surviving offspring between parents would further exacerbate the temporal clustering effect and divergence from equilibrium in the direction observed.This is especially an issue when data sets are collected as a series of samples (here a set of specimens from a tree) rather than as independent individuals (Gotelli & Coddington 2001).
It is clear that there is evidence of disequilibria present in the data set.There could well be other factors also causing disequilibria.Whatever the causes, however, the assumptions of the models are not met.diversity of tropical forest is much higher than that of Chilean temperate rainforest communities where Nothofagus is often found in single species stands.Consequently there is no support for the proposal that the very large number of singletons obser ved in rainforest beetle communities are primarily due to vagrants from other hosts.
Singletons have, on average, a larger body size Coddington et al. (2009) obser ved that the average size of species represented by singletons in their spider study was larger than that of all species sampled but that this effect was due to a few very large cursorial species.A similar result was found in this study with singletons being on average more than fi ve times the size of more common species.This raises another possible source of divergence from the assumption that the beetle fauna is acting as a single integrated community.
In summar y, between them the three null hypotheses of undersampling bias, community disequilibria and feeding guilds with different patterns of diversity are likely to be suffi cient to explain the divergence of data for large speciose beetle communities from the predictions of any of the equilibrium models.Until these three factors can be fully accounted for and residual divergence detected, there is no necessity to propose more complex mechanisms to explain such data.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We would like to thank all those who assisted in the fogging, sorting and identifi cation program in Chile.Saul Cunningham, Simon Ferrier and Sharon Lawler made useful suggestions.Christine Richardson prepared the fi gures.We are very grateful to Dr. Richard M. Bohart for fi nancial support.This work was also supported, in part, by the Schlinger Foundation and the National Science Foundation (Grant #0445413).

Fig. 2 :
Fig. 2: Fit of observed beetle community data from to local community species abundance curves developed by modelling using the predicted logseries curve.

Fig. 3 :
Fig. 3: Relationships between samples collected at a single location in four years.The Distance/Similarity measure is Canberra Distance linked using Saitou and Nei Neighbour Joining (year/sample number shown).The broader lines identify linkages of > 50 %.
T = 0.228 and 0.212 respectively) and geographically str uctured populations (H S = 0.199 and 0.151 respectively)(Premoli  1997, Pr emoli & Kitzberger 2005, Ruiz  et al. 2007).Consequently, the dif ferent community str ucturing obser ved in the beetle communities is not simply due to underlying dif ferences in genetic diversity or the level of geographical structuring of the 'host' tree populations.It is possible that the dif ferences are related to the fact that there are dif ferent densities of trees in the two forest types.As tree densities are estimated to be 25 trees per hectare in Araucaria forest(Smith et al. 2009) and 250 trees per hectare in Nothofagus for est(McQuillan 1993), less beetle species would be predicted on Araucaria (Hubbell 2004).

Fig. 4 :
Fig. 4: Fit of observed beetle community data for data for Borneo beetles from Stork (1997) and each trophic group from Nothofagus forest to species abundance curves developed by modelling using the predicted logseries curve.

Fig. 5 :
Fig. 5: Regression plot of log % singletons against log intensity for Nothofagus forest samples (X).Also shown is the point for the tropical rainforest beetle data of Stork (1997) (+) which lies below the regression line for the Nothofagus data, not far above the line as predicted.

TABLE 1
Summary of the results for beetle communities in Nothofagus and Araucaria forests in Chile.Resumen de los resultados de comunidades de coleópteros en bosques de Nothofagus y Araucarias en Chile.much worse than that to the logseries prediction.The richness and diversity values (S obs , alpha, θ and Simpson D) for the Araucaria community are much lower than those found for the Nothofagus community even when adjusted to the same number of trees (Table

TABLE 2
Table 2 shows comparisons of Andean and coastal forest faunas.It is clear that, especially

TABLE 3
Summar y of the results for beetle communities in Nothofagus and Araucaria forests in Chile subdivided into separate feeding guilds.Resumen de los resultados de comunidades de coleópteros en bosques de Nothofagus y Araucarias en Chile, subdivididos en estratos alimenticios.Individuals S obs Intensity % singletons ICE Chao 1 (± SD) Alpha (± SD) Simpson