Abstract

We examined species richness patterns for the wasps associated with southern and central African figs (Ficus) to determine if fig wasp communities are saturated with species and if the degree of saturation (or undersaturation) differs in temperate and tropical communities. Saturation was tested by regressing local wasp-community richness (alpha diversity) against the regional wasp species richness (gamma diversity) of each fig species, and latitudinal variation in saturation was tested by regressing local community species richness against latitude

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