Diversity and specificity of ant-plant interactions in canopy communities: insights from primary and secondary tropical forests in New Guinea

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316671825.003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316671825.003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316671825.003" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781316671825.003</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Diversity and specificity of ant-plant interactions in canopy communities: insights from primary and secondary tropical forests in New Guinea
Original language description
In this chapter I review current knowledge of changes due to tropical forest disturbance and fragmentation in ant communities (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the canopies of primary and disturbed (secondary and logged) forest ecosystems. Furthermore, I examine arboreal ant communities and their host trees in primary and secondary lowland forest in New Guinea, where a plot- based census of all tree-dwelling ants and their nests was conducted. I show how the diversity and host-specificity of the interactions between ants, their host tree species and nest microhabitats change between the two forest stages, and discuss potential consequences for the conservation of diverse canopy communities. My results show that environmental predictors explain a similar proportion (12%) of the variance in ant community composition in both primary and secondary forests. Most of this variance is linked to tree size and nest site variability, whereas the effect of tree host species themselves on ants is very low (1%). Primary forests support a greater variability of microhabitats, and the rarity of some nest sites in secondary forests can result in the loss of particular ant taxa.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-36098G" target="_blank" >GB14-36098G: Center for tropical biology</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Ant-Plant Interactions: Impacts of Humans on Terrestrial Ecosystems
ISBN
978-1-10715-975-4
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
26-51
Number of pages of the book
470
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
UT code for WoS chapter
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