Ant Species Diversity, Distribution, and Community Composition in Different Forest Types in Papua New Guinea

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/21:00547883

Result on the web

<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/cse/article-abstract/5/1/1342727/118498/Ant-Species-Diversity-Distribution-and-Community?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" >https://online.ucpress.edu/cse/article-abstract/5/1/1342727/118498/Ant-Species-Diversity-Distribution-and-Community?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2021.1342727" target="_blank" >10.1525/cse.2021.1342727</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ant Species Diversity, Distribution, and Community Composition in Different Forest Types in Papua New Guinea

Original language description

Previous studies have provided important scientific information on ant species richness and composition relating to the effects of elevation, sampling approaches, stratification, and forest succession. Yet, they have primarily focused on single sites or regions. Knowledge of ant ecology should also include the impact of disturbance in various forest types. Tuna baiting and hand collection methods were used to investigate diversity and community composition of ants in 16 sites sampled across Papua New Guinea, in both disturbed and pristine forest, at heights ranging from 28 to 2,728 m above sea level. We found 176 species as a result of exposing 320 tuna baits and traversing 72 hand-searched plots. Baiting samples were strongly dominated by a few common species, while the hand-collecting captured more species per plot. The Chao 2 richness estimator for both methods predicted undersampling of the local community. As expected, ant species diversity and richness significantly decrease with increasing elevation. We observed, on average, greater species diversity of ground-dwelling ant communities in disturbed compared to undisturbed forests. The effect was not significant using multivariate randomisations, since the same species dominated both forest classes. The unexpected pattern of ant species richness being locally higher in the disturbed sites is driven by our sampling of undisturbed communities at all elevations, but sampling of the disturbed communities only up to 1,600 m above sea level. Hence, future studies should consider more locations, aiming ideally for an equal sampling effort to capture disturbance stage and elevation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Case Studies in the Environment

ISSN

2473-9510

e-ISSN

2473-9510

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

nestrankovano

UT code for WoS article

000741080100009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85092696487