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| Fernandes,Tae Tanaami; Silva,Rogério R.; Souza-Campana,Débora Rodrigues de; Silva,Otávio Guilherme Morais da; Morini,Maria Santina de Castro. |
| Abstract: In the leaf litter, ants have various nesting resources available, such as live or dead trunks, twigs, leaves, fruits and seeds. On the twigs, there are adults and immature individuals, but also the queen and winged. The production of wings requires time and energy from the colony. The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of winged in ant colonies in twigs on the leaf litter. Our prediction is that the richness and abundance of winged in twigs are the greatest in rainy months. We collected all twigs with ants in 552 plots with 16 m2, totaling 8,832 m2 of leaf litter, in areas located in the Brazilian Atlantic Domain. We compared the species richness and the number of colonies with and without winged, as well as the number of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Dead wood; Mating; Satellite nest; Inhabitant of leaf litter; Arboreal habitat. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032019000300306 |
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| Silva,Otávio Guilherme Morais da; Fernandes,Tae Tanaami; Silva,Rogério Rosa da; Souza-Campana,Débora Rodrigues de; Morini,Maria Santina de Castro. |
| ABSTRACT Ants can use twigs from fragments of tree branches as a nesting resource. The present study analyzed gatherings of ants in twigs of Albizia niopoides, a Fabaceae native to the Atlantic Forest that is used in landscaping in parks and squares in Brazil. Expeditions were performed in an urban park located in Atlantic Forest areas between February and June 2014. A total of 70 twigs with ants were collected and included 9357 workers, 2309 broods ants, 68 winged ants and 19 queens. Four subfamilies, 10 genera and 17 species/morphospecies were recorded. The species with the largest number of nests were Nylanderia sp.1, Hypoponera sp.4, and Wasmannia auropunctata. Ants of different species were found coexisting in the same twig, and Pheidole gr. tristis... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Communities; Nesting; Urban park; Transient nests; Atlantic Forest. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262016000200182 |
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