中国昆虫生物地理学进展与展望

昆虫是地球上多样性最高的生物类群,其物种数量超过所有生物物种数量的一半,在生态系统中具有重要功能,且与人类生活密切相关。理解昆虫多样性及地理分布格局对于科学研究和人类社会发展有重要意义。基于详细的文章资料梳理,本文总结了1950—2020年中国昆虫生物地理学领域文章发表趋势,并从昆虫物种多样性调查、昆虫区系研究、昆虫群落多样性、昆虫遗传多样性格局、昆虫地理分布格局等几个方面论述了中国昆虫生物地理研究的代表性研究进展。中国昆虫生物地理学研究几十年来取得了可喜的发展,但仍需重点加强几方面的思考和工作,包括整合性思维、时空尺度、科学问题的凝练、昆虫性状生物地理学、昆虫多样性和地理分布数据共享。

Progress and perspectives on insect biogeography in China

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms on the Earth. There are more than one million insect species, accounting for more than half of the total. Insects usually play important parts in the ecosystem and have close relations with humans. Therefore understanding biodiversity and distribution patterns of insects is of important signficance for biogeography science as well as the development of human society. Based on detailed literature retrieval and content analysis, this paper presents the trends of publications on insect biogeography in China during the past 70 years, and summarizes main research progress from the following aspects: insect species survey, insect fauna, insect community diversity, genetic diversity patterns of insects, and distribution patterns of insects. Encouraging progress on insect biogeography have been made in China during the past decades, however, researchers need to strengthen the thinking and study on several aspects including integrative biogeography thinking, spatial and temporal scales, refining scientific questions and hypotheses, trait biogeography of insects, and sharing of biodiversity and distribution data of insects.