Bouchard and Brooks Studied the Effect of Insect Flight on Dispersal

question 26

Multiple Choice

Bouchard and Brooks studied the effect of insect flight on dispersal and speciation in rain forest insects.They sampled all of the insects in the study area and found that 60 insect species are flightless and 19 are macropterous (able to fly) .What can you conclude so far about this study?
(P) Bouchard and D.R.Brooks.2004.Effect of vagility potential on dispersal and speciation in rainforest insects.Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:
994-1006. )

• A)Flightless insects have a greater dispersal potential from this study area.
• B)Flightless insects are more numerous in the study area.
• C)Flightless insects have a higher diversity in the study area.
• D)Flightless insects are better suited for the tropics.
• E)These data do not lead to a conclusion.

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