Bacterial diversity in arboreal ant nesting spaces is linked to …
2023年11月30日 · This study on the dynamics of the bacterial community in ant-built patches during the life cycle of arboreal ant colonies indicates that ecological processes driven by ant behavior and...
Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American ...
2024年11月10日 · Using the climbing rope as a vertical transect, we collected arboreally foraging ants and searched for arboreal ant nests by peeling bark and breaking dead branches for 2 hr. Terrestrial hand collections occurred simultaneously to canopy collections in a 10 m circle around the base of the tree for 2 hr.
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant ...
2023年9月27日 · Here, we use a highly tractable arboreal ant study system to explore the interactive effects of resource availability and competition on community structure across three local scales: an individual tree, the nest network created …
Epiphytic Ant-Plant Mutualism Structures Arboreal Ant Communities ...
2019年7月15日 · Arboreal ant communities are primarily structured by interactions among ant species, food availability, and physical structures within the environment. Epiphytes are a common feature of tropical forests that can provide ants with both food and nesting space.
Why are there more arboreal ant species in primary than in …
2012年5月29日 · We assessed the effects of succession-related determinants on a keystone ecological group, arboreal ants, by conducting a complete census of 1332 ant nests from all trees with diameter at breast height ≥ 5 cm occurring within two (unreplicated) 0·32-ha plots, one in primary and one in secondary lowland forest in New Guinea.
Arboreal ants build traps to capture prey | Nature
2005年4月20日 · Tiny ants construct an elaborate ambush to immobilize and kill much larger insects. Some tree-living ants make up for a lack of nitrogen in their diet by acting in groups to capture proteinrich...
established ant colonies reveals a highly diverse, ant species-specific bacterial community and little variation within an individual ant colony, with Burkholderiales, Rhizobiales and ...
Nest choice in arboreal ants is an emergent consequence of …
2021年4月24日 · The pheromone-based trail networks of ants have been especially valuable in this regard. Here, we use turtle ants as our focal system: In contrast to the ant species usually used as models for self-organized networks, these ants live in a spatially constrained arboreal environment where both nesting options and connecting pathways are limited.
Bacterial diversity in arboreal ant nesting spaces is linked
2023年11月30日 · Amplicon sequencing of the microbial 16S rRNA genes in patches from established ant colonies reveals a highly diverse, ant species-specific bacterial community and little variation within an individual ant colony, with Burkholderiales, Rhizobiales and Chitinophagales being most abundant.
Oecophylla smaragdina - Wikipedia
Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include Asian weaver ant, weaver ant, green ant, green tree ant, semut rangrang, semut kerangga, and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in tropical Asia and Australia.