Disentangling the diversity of arboreal ant communities in tropical forest trees

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Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/15:43889000
Result on the web
<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117853" target="_blank" >http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117853</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117853" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0117853</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Disentangling the diversity of arboreal ant communities in tropical forest trees
Original language description
Tropical canopies are known for high abundance and diversity of ants. We censused nesting and foraging arboreal ant communities in two 0.32 ha plots of primary and secondary lowland rainforest in New Guinea and explored their species diversity and composition. Null models were used to test if the records of species foraging in a tree were dependent on the spatial distribution of nests in surrounding trees. In total, 102 ant species occurred in the primary plot compared with only 50 species in the secondary forest plot. However, there was only a small difference in mean ant species richness per tree between primary and secondary forest (3.8 and 3.3 sp. respectively). About half of the species and half of foraging individuals collected in a tree belongedto species which were not nesting in that tree. Null models showed that the ants foraging but not nesting in a tree are significantly more likely to nest in nearby trees. The primary forest plot was dominated by native ant species, where
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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