TY - JOUR T1 - The Response of Some Rain-Forest Insect Groups to Logging and Conversion to Plantation JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences Y1 - 1992 A1 - Holloway, J. D. A1 - Kirkspriggs, A. H. A1 - Khen, C. V. SP - 425 EP - 436 KW - forest change biodiversity dung beetles AB - Data and analyses from pilot studies in the Danum area of Sabah, East Malaysia, and elsewhere in the Indo-Australian tropics are used to measure the effects of logging and other human disturbance, such as conversion to plantation, on insect diversity. The two insect groups studied have very different trophic requirements: moths, with floristically specific herbivory, and dung and carrion beetles, exploiting resources of much more uniform quality over different forest systems. Moths show significant loss of diversity and taxonomic quality with disturbance and conversion to plantation. The beetles show much less change in diversity and faunistic composition. The implications for conservation of biodiversity are discussed, and suggestions for further work are made. VL - 335 UR - ://A1992HN46100011 N1 - HN461PHIL TRANS ROY SOC LONDON B ER -