Taphonomy and palaeoecology of insects in amber: A comparison of the Middle Miocene Mexican amber fauna with to the extant insect fauna of a Mexican resin-producing forest in Chiapas, Mexico.

本项目是对墨西哥琥珀动物群和最近在Hymenaea curbaril及其周围的昆虫动物群的比较分析。这个植物群落位于墨西哥南部太平洋海岸的一片产树脂的森林中，与墨西哥的琥珀森林非常相似。这一特殊情况使得对琥珀中昆虫群落石化的蚕茧偏向和过滤器进行了详细的调查。其他重要专题是动物群落在气候条件变化中的稳定性，特别是水生群落，以及对墨西哥和中美洲昆虫属和种的存续或灭绝的定量和定性分析，从墨西哥琥珀中得知。最后，该项目是对高度多样化的新热带地区昆虫生物多样性知识的贡献。

The present project is a comparative analysis of the Mexican amber fauna with the recent insect fauna at and around Hymenaea curbaril This floral community is situated in a resin-producing forest on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico, which is very similar to the Mexican amber forest. This exceptional situation enables detailed investigations of the taphonomical biases and filters of the fossilization of insect communities in amber. Other important topics are the stability of faunal communities in the light of changing climatic conditions, especially the aquatic associations and the quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of the persistence or extinction of insect genera and species in Mexico and Central America, which are known from Mexican amber. Finally the project is a contribution to the knowledge of the insect biodiversity of a highly diverse Neotropical Region.