Soil properties only weakly affect subterranean ant distribution at small spatial scales

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-169

  Jacquemin, Justine ^a,b   Drouet, Thomas ^b   Delsinne, Thibaut ^a   Roisin, Yves ^b   Leponce, Maurice ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Andes; Ant biodiversity; Ant community; Ecuador; Soil fauna; Tropical mountain forests

Indexed keywords

ACROPYGA FUHRMANNI; FORMICIDAE; HYPOPONERA;

EID: 84866519619     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Aguirre Z., Cabrera O., Sanchez A., Merino B., Maza B. Composición florística, endemismo y etnobotánica de la vegetación del Sector Oriental, parte baja del Parque Nacional Podocarpus. Lyonia 2003, 3:5-14.
2. Andersen A.N., Brault A. Exploring a new biodiversity frontier: subterranean ants in northern Australia. Biodivers. Conserv. 2010, 19:2741-2750.
3. Baccaro F.B., Ketelhut S.M., De Morais J.W. Resource distribution and soil moisture content can regulate bait control in an ant assemblage in Central Amazonian forest. Austral Ecol. 2010, 35:274-281.
4. Beck E., Bendix J., Kottke I., Makeschin F., Mosandl R. Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.
5. Bestelmeyer B.T., Wiens J.A. Ant biodiversity in semiarid landscape mosaics: the consequences of grazing vs. natural heterogeneity. Ecol. Appl. 2001, 11:1123-1140.
6. Boulton A.M., Davies K.F., Ward P.S. Species richness, abundance, and composition of ground-dwelling ants in northern California grasslands: role of plants, soil, and grazing. Environ. Entomol. 2005, 34:96-104.
7. Chao A. Estimating the population size for capture-recapture data with unequal catchability. Biometrics 1987, 43:783-791.
8. Chao A., Chazdon R.L., Colwell R.K., Shen T.-J. A new statistical approach for assessing composition similarity based on incidence and abundance data. Ecol. Lett. 2005, 8:148-159.
9. Colwell R.K. EstimateS: Statistical Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species from Samples. Version 8.2.0 2006, http://purl.oclc.org/estimates.
10. Delabie J.H.C. Inquilinismo simultaneo de duas especies de Centromyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) em cupinzeiros de Syntermes sp (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutermitinae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 1995, 39:605-609.
11. Delabie J.H.C., Fisher B.L., Majer J.D., Wright I.W. Sampling effort and choice of methods. Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity 2000, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, USA. D. Agosti, J.D. Majer, L. Alonso, T.R. Schultz (Eds.).
12. Fagundes, E.P., 2003. Efeitos de fatores do solo, altitude e inclinação do terreno sobre os invertebrados da serapilheira, com ênfase em Formicidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) da Reserva Ducke, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil. Master Science Dissertation. Universidade Federal do Amazonas.
13. Flanders S.E. The complete interdependence of an ant and a coccid. Ecology 1957, 38:535-536.
14. Folgarait P.J. Ant biodiversity and its relationship to ecosystem functioning: a review. Biodivers. Conserv. 1998, 7:1221-1244.
15. Fowler H.G., Delabie J.H.C., Moutinho P.R.S. Hypogaeic and epigaeic ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) assemblages of Atlantic costal rainforest and dry mature and secondary Amazon forest in Brazil: Continuums or communities. Trop. Ecol. 2000, 41:73-80.
16. Frouz J., Holec M., Kalcik J. The effect of Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ant nests on selected soil chemical properties. Pedobiologia 2003, 47:205-212.
17. Frouz J., Jílková V. The effect of ants on soil properties and processes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecol. News 2008, 11:191-199.
18. Hammer Ø., Harper D.A.T., Ryan P.D. PAST: Paleontological Statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontol. Electron. 2001, 4:9.
19. Hardy O.J. TOROCOR: A Program to Assess the Association Between Spatially Autocorrelated Variables using a Torus-Translation Test on Multiple Grids 2009, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Consulted on 03.i.2012. http://ebe.ulb.ac.be/ebe/Software.html.
20. Hölldobler B., Wilson E.O. Ecology and behavior of the primitive cryptobiotic ant Prionopelta amabilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect. Soc. 1986, 33:45-58.
21. Hölldobler B., Wilson E.O. The Ants 1990, Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge.
22. Homeier J., Werner F.A., Gradstein S.R., Breckle S.-W., Richter M. Potential vegetation and floristic composition of Andean forests in South Ecuador, with a focus on the RBSF. Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador. Ecological Studies 2008, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. E. Beck, J. Bendix, I. Kottke, F. Makeschin, R. Mosandl (Eds.).
23. Jacquemin J., Maraun M., Roisin Y., Leponce M. Differential response of ants to nutrient addition in a tropical Brown Food Web. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2012, 46:10-17.
24. Johnson R.A. Soil texture as an influence on the distribution of the desert seed-harvester ants Pogonomyrmex rugosus and Messor pergandei. Oecologia 1992, 89:118-124.
25. Johnson R.A. Habitat segregation based on soil texture and body size in the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus and P. barbatus. Ecol. Entomol. 2000, 25:403-412.
26. Jones C.G., Lawton J.H., Shachak M. Organisms as ecosystem engineers. Oikos 1994, 69:373-386.
27. Jouquet P., Dauber J., Lagerlöf J., Lavelle P., Lepage M. Soil invertebrates as ecosystem engineers: intended and accidental effects on soil and feedback loops. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2006, 32:153-164.
28. Kaspari M., Weiser M.D. The size-grain hypothesis and interspecific scaling in ants. Funct. Ecol. 1999, 13:530-538.
29. Levings S.C. Seasonal, annual, and among-site variation in the ground ant community of a deciduous tropical forest: some causes of patchy species distributions. Ecol. Monogr. 1983, 53:435-455.
30. McCahon T.J., Lockwood J.A. Nest architecture and pedoturbation of Formica obscuripes Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 1990, 66:147-156.
31. McGlynn T.P., Salinas D.J., Dunn R.R., Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A. Phosphorus limits tropical rain forest litter fauna. Biotropica 2007, 39:50-53.
32. McGlynn T.P., Fawcett R.M., Clark D.A. Litter biomass and nutrient determinants of ant density, nest size, and growth in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest. Biotropica 2009, 41:234-240.
33. Mezger D., Pfeiffer M. Is nest temperature an important factor for niche partitioning by leaf-litter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Bornean rain forests?. J. Trop. Ecol. 2010, 26:445-455.
34. Mill A.E. Faunal studies on termites (Isoptera) and observations on their ant predators (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Amazon basin. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 1982, 26:253-260.
35. Pansu M., Gautheyrou J. Handbook of Soil Analysis: Mineralogical, Organic and Inorganic Methods 2006, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
36. Peeters C., Molet M. Colonial reproduction and life histories. Ant Ecology 2010, Oxford University Press, Oxford. L. Lach, C. Parr, K. Abbott (Eds.).
37. Petal J. The role of ants in ecosystems. Production Ecology of Ants and Termites 1978, Cambridge University Press, London. M.V. Brian (Ed.).
38. Ryder Wilkie K.T., Mertl A.L., Traniello J.F. Biodiversity below ground: probing the subterranean ant fauna of Amazonia. Naturwissenschaften 2007, 94:725-731.
39. Ryder Wilkie K.T., Mertl A.L., Traniello J.F. Species diversity and distribution patterns of the ants of Amazonian Ecuador. PloS ONE 2010, 5:e13146.
40. Santschi F. Revue des fourmis du genre Brachymyrmex Mayr. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (La Plata) 1923, 31:650-678.
41. Schneider S.A., LaPolla J.S. Systematics of the mealybug tribe Xenococcini (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae), with a discussion of trophobiotic associations with Acropyga Roger ants. Syst. Entomol. 2011, 36:57-82.
42. Schnitzer M. Organic matter characterization. Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 2. Chemical and Microbiological Properties 1982, American Society of Agronomy, Madison, WI, USA. 2nd edition. A.L. Page, R.H. Miller, D.R. Keeney (Eds.).
43. Schulte E.E., Hopkins B.G. Estimation of soil organic matter by weight loss-on-ignition. Soil Organic Matter: Analysis and Interpretation 1996, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, USA. F.R. Magdoff, M.A. Tabatabai, E.A. Hanlon (Eds.).
44. Smith B., Wilson J.B. A consumer's guide to evenness measures. Oikos 1996, 76:70-82.
45. Theunis L., Gilbert M., Roisin Y., Leponce M. Spatial structure of litter-dwelling ant distribution in a subtropical dry forest. Insect. Soc. 2005, 52:366-377.
46. Vasconcelos H.L., Macedo A.C.C., Vilhena J.M.S. Influence of topography on the distribution of ground-dwelling ants in an Amazonian forest. Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ. 2003, 38:115-124.
47. Wagner D., Jones J.B., Gordon D.M. Development of harvester ant colonies alters soil chemistry. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2004, 36:797-804.
48. Wiens J.A., Milne B.T. Scaling of 'landscapes' in landscape ecology, or, landscape ecology from a beetle's perspective. Landscape Ecol. 1989, 3:87-96.
49. Williams B.G., Hoey D. The use of electromagnetic induction to detect the spatial variability of the salt and clay contents of soils. Aust. J. Soil Res. 1987, 25:21-27.