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Canopies of natural forests in temperate and tropical regions contain largely undescribed and little understood assemblages of arthropods that have greatly expanded estimates of the total number of insect/arthropod species. Estimates of total species numbers range considerably and have reached as high as 100 million species concordant with the assumption that tropical forest canopies provide the habitat template for this incredible diversity.
In Canada, approximately half of the estimated 66,000 insects have been described, and in British Columbia there may be as many as 40,000 arthropod species, many of which are undescribed and associated with ancient forests. Even with the increased focus on global rainforest canopy research, the forests and forest canopy of the Pacific Northwest are some of the least explored habitats. Only a handful of studies on ancient forest-canopy invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest have been completed to date.
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