The arthropod community of bamboo internodes in Peninsular Malaysia: microzonation and trophic structure

Abstract

*[The hollow culm segments (internodes) of the Southeast-Asian bamboo Gigantochloa scortechinii Gamble were chosen as model systems for studying tropical animal communities. As a first step in the investigation of this poorly known community a survey was taken of the animal taxa occurring in living & dead internodes. In all, several hundred animal taxa (including ants) were found, many of them restricted to bamboo internodes, & many still undescribed.]