At the Luquillo Experimental Forest, invertebrate community structure and herbivory were compared among tree species co-occurring in intact forest (standing trees) and canopy gaps. Lepidoptera, predaceous beetles, and decomposers were significantly more abundant in standing trees; whereas, some sap-sucking arthropods were more abundant in canopy gaps, indicating that these taxa responded to changes in microclimate and/or host condition resulting from disturbance. Herbivory and numbers of several taxa differed significantly among three species, likely reflecting host preferences based on foliage nutritional quality. -from Author
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Timothy D. Schowalter (1994) studied this question.