Detecting the effects of environmental change above the species level with beetles in a fragmented tropical rainforest landscape

Abstract 1. Invertebrate data identified to coarse groupings according to taxonomy or ecology are easier to obtain than species‐level data. However, it is unclear if such data are suitable for detecting environmental change. 2. We compared the performance of four types of data (species, family, trophic group, and body size) to quantify the responses of beetle assemblages with three types of enviro…