Surface-active arthropod communities in native and exotic riparian vegetation in the Middle Rio Crande valley, New Mexico

摘要

The rapid naturalization of exotic saltcedar (Tamarix) trees in riparian ecosystems throughout the southwestern United States necessitates understanding its impacts on various ecosystem components, yet surface-active arthropod communities in these systems remain largely unstudied in spite of their importance to ecosystem structure and function. We used pitfall-trap captures to estimate taxonomic richness, abundance, and composition of surface-active arthropods in two cottonwood