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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships
Biology Letters, Volume 6, No. 6, Year 2010
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Tropical forest canopies house most of the globe's diversity, yet little is known about global patterns and drivers of canopy diversity. Here, we present models of ant species density, using climate, abundance and habitat (i.e. canopy versus litter) as predictors. Ant species density is positively associated with temperature and precipitation, and negatively (or non-significantly) associated with two metrics of seasonality, precipitation seasonality and temperature range. Ant species density was significantly higher in canopy samples, but this difference disappeared once abundance was considered. Thus, apparent differences in species density between canopy and litter samples are probably owing to differences in abundance-diversity relationships, and not differences in climate-diversity relationships. Thus, it appears that canopy and litter ant assemblages share a common abundance-diversity relationship influenced by similar but not identical climatic drivers. © 2010 The Royal Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Weiser, Michael D.
United States, Raleigh
Nc State University
Sanders, Nathan J.
United States, Knoxville
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Agosti, Donat
Unknown Affiliation
Andersen, Alan N.
Australia, Canberra
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ellison, Aaron M.
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Fisher, Brian L.
United States, San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Gibb, Heloise
Australia, Melbourne
La Trobe University
Gotelli, Nicholas J.
United States, Burlington
The University of Vermont
Gove, Aaron David
Australia, Perth
Curtin University
Guénard, Benoit S.
United States, Raleigh
Nc State University
Janda, Milan
Czech Republic, Prague
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Lessard, Jean Philippe
United States, Knoxville
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Longino, John T.
United States, Olympia
Evergreen State College
Majer, Jonathan David
Australia, Perth
Curtin University
Menke, Sean B.
United States, Raleigh
Nc State University
McGlynn, Terrence P.
United States, Carson
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Parr, Catherine L.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Philpott, Stacy M.
United States, Toledo
The University of Toledo
Retana, Javier Retana
Spain, Madrid
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Suarez, Andrew V.
United States, Urbana
University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
Vasconcelos, Heraldo L.
Brazil, Uberlandia
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Dunn, Robert R.
United States, Raleigh
Nc State University
Statistics
Citations: 25
Authors: 22
Affiliations: 18
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1098/rsbl.2010.0151
ISSN:
17449561
Research Areas
Environmental