Several morphological characteristics (adaptative or not) could be associated with the process of adaptation to a specific environment or microhabitat. For example, several troglobization processes (species with all the live cycle exclusively in caves) in non-related lineages are associated with the same morphological changes, such as anophtalmy, loss of pigmentation, appendage elongation, etc.
My question is: do there exist morphological changes (and which ones) in arthropods associated with the adaptation to live in a canopy? (and a bibliographic reference if possible).
Thank you very much!
We can never know if a characteristic is an adaptation or if species have always been that way because we cannot go back in time to observe. So all we can say is that species have characteristics that enable them to survive, not that they actually adapted :)
Hi Abel
Good question, but hard to answer. Terry Erwin worked with canopy beetles and canopy tropical forests, there are some papers here (https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/terry-erwin), that may help you to contextualize. Good luck!
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