A comparison of ant assemblages (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on serpentine and non-serpentine soils in northern California

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-33

  Fisher, B L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chaparral; Diversity; Formicidae; inventory methods; serpentine

Indexed keywords

ASPLENIUM BULBIFERUM SUBSP. BULBIFERUM; CAMPONOTUS HYATTI; FORMICA; FORMICA MOKI; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX NEVADENSIS; PRENOLEPIS IMPARIS; STENAMMA DIECKI;

EID: 0030897003     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050027     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Andersen, A.N., 1991. Sampling communities of ground-foraging ants: pitfall catches compared with quadrat counts in an Australian tropical savanna. Aust. J. Ecol. 16:273-279.
2. Baker, A.J.M., J. Proctor and R. D. Reeves, 1992. The Vegetation Of Ultramafic (Serpentine) Soils; First International Conference On Serpentine Ecology, Davis, California, USA, June 19-22, 1991. Intercept Ltd., Andover, UK, 509 pp.
3. Brooks, R.R., 1987. Serpentine and its vegetation. Dioscorides, Portland, OR USA, 454 pp.
4. Chazdon, R.L., R.K. Colwell, J.S. Denslow and M.R. Guariguata (in press). Statistical methods for estimating species richness of woody regeneration in primary and secondary rain forests of NE Costa Rica. Proceedings of the SI/MAB International Symposium on Measuring and Monitoring Forest Biological Diversity: The International Network of Biodiversity Plots (F. Dallmeier, Ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.
5. Heltshe, J. and N.E. Forrester, 1983. Estimating species richness using the jackknife procedure. Biometrics 50:88-97.
6. Kruckeberg, A.R., 1984. California serpentines: Flora, vegetation, geology, soils and management problems. University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA USA. 180 pp.
7. Kruckeberg, A.R. and A.L. Kruckeberg, 1990. Endemic metallophytes: Their taxonomic, genetic, and evolutionary attributes. In: Heavy metal tolerance in plants: evolutionary aspects (A.J. Shaw, Ed.), CRC Press, FL USA. pp. 301-312.
8. Lee, S.-M. and A. Chao, 1994. Estimating population size via sample coverage for closed capture-recapture models. Biometrics 50:88-97.
9. Mayer, M.S. and P.S. Soltis, 1994. The evolution of serpentine endemics: A chloroplast DNA phylogeny of the Streptanthus glandulosus complex (Cruciferae). Syst. Bot. 19:557-574.
10. Mayer, M.S., P.S. Soltis and D.E. Soltis, 1994. The evolution of the Streptanthus glandulosus complex (Cruciferae): genetic divergence and gene flow in serpentine endemics. Am. J. Bot. 81:1288-1299.
11. Proctor, J. and S.R.J. Woodell, 1975. The ecology of serpentine soils. Adv. Ecol. Res. 9:255-365.
12. Shapiro, A.M., 1981. Egg-mimics of Streptanthus (Cruciferae) deter oviposition by Pieris sisymbrii (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Oecologia 48:142-143.
13. Sokal, R.R. and F.J. Rohlf, 1981. Biometry. Freeman and Company, NY USA. 859 pp.
14. Sugden, E.A., P. S. Ward, A. M. Shapiro and S. Teague, 1985. Invertebrates. In: Flora and fauna of the Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, Solano County, California (W.W. Weathers and R. Cole, Eds.), Institute of Ecology Publication No. 29. University of California, Davis. pp. 47-62.
15. Ubick, D. and T.S. Briggs, 1989. The harvestmen family Phalangodidae. 1. The new genus Calicina, with notes on Sitalcina (Opiliones: Laniatores). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 46:95-136.
16. Ward, P.S., 1987. Distribution of the introduced Argentine Ant (Iridomyrmex humilis) in natural habitats of the lower Sacramento Valley and its effect on the indigenous ant fauna. Hilgardia 55:1-16.
17. Ward, P.S., 1988. Mesic Elements in the Western Nearctic Ant Fauna: Taxonomic and Biological Notes on Amblyopone, Proceratium and Smithistruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Kans. Entomol Soc. 61:102-124.
18. Weathers, W. W. and R. Cole, 1985. Flora and fauna of the Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, Solano County, California. Institute of Ecology Publication No. 29. University of California, Davis. 84 pp.
19. Westerbergh, A. and A. Saura, 1992. The effect of serpentine on the population structure of Silene dioca (Caryophyllaceae). Evolution 45:1537-1548.