Space, Habitat and Isolation are the Key Determinants of Tree Colonization by the Carpenter Ant in Plantation Forests
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18470%2F19%3A50015845" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18470/19:50015845 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/19:80615 RIV/00020702:_____/19:N0000038
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/8/630" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/8/630</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10080630" target="_blank" >10.3390/f10080630</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Space, Habitat and Isolation are the Key Determinants of Tree Colonization by the Carpenter Ant in Plantation Forests
Original language description
Forest plantations are still often considered the antithesis of real nature. However, plantations can host many organisms. The problem is that some of the hosted species are regarded ad hoc as pests. The main aim of our paper was to study the carpenter ant (Camponotus ligniperdus) in windstorm habitats. We studied forests in East Bohemia, Czech Republic, and focused on the spatial distribution of snapped trees and the influence of selected forest characteristics on the incidence of ant nests. We found that the nests in the study area mainly occurred in Norway spruce, which is the most commercially important tree in the majority of Central Europe. More than one quarter of the snapped trees were inhabited by the ants. We found that nests exhibited a spatially autocorrelated pattern that differed on spatial scales. The most important characteristic of the host tree for determining carpenter ant nests was the presence of brown rot, and the majority of tree nests were isolated from forest openings. The presence of carpenter ants in forest plantations is, therefore, not harmful. Their presence could be used by forest managers as an indication of unsuitable stand conditions for the successful growth of the Norway spruce and other coniferous plantation trees.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Forests
ISSN
1999-4907
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
"Article number: 630"
UT code for WoS article
000482949200021
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85070558978