昆虫生态学试验设计中时空转换的技巧

Conversion of time and space in insect ecology

时空转换最初是研究植物群落演替的方法,目前作为一种理论推断在社会科学、地理信息和地质分析等领域应用,在昆虫生态学中的应用很少,本文介绍了空间换取时间与时间换取空间两种方法,能够巧妙地缩短很多昆虫生态学的试验时间,或增加研究范围内的样本数,在大尺度景观研究昆虫迁移、预测预报、栖境恢复等方面具有重要意义。这种时空转换的技巧在昆虫生态学的研究的有广阔的应用前景。

Conversion of time and space is a method used in studying the evolution of plant communities and is also a theory used in the social sciences and geological analysis. It is, however, rarely applied in insect ecology. This paper introduces both space-for time substitution and time-for-space substitution. These two processes can greatly reduce the time of experiments thereby allowing more sampling. They consequently are of great benefit for research on insect migration, outbreak prediction, and landscape scale habitat restoration. Conversion of time and space has a promising future and can be applied widely in insect ecology.