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| Oliveira,Roseli F.; Silva,Rogério R.; Souza-Campana,Débora R.; Nakano,Márcia A.; Morini,Maria Santina C.. |
| Morphological traits, such as size and shape, may reflect a combination of ecological and evolutionary responses by organisms. Ants have been used to evaluate the relationship between the environment and species coexistence and morphology. In the present study, we analyzed the morphology of workers of Gnamptogenys striatula Mayr in different landscapes from the Atlantic Domain in southeastern Brazil, focusing on the variation in the morphological attributes of these populations compared to those from a dense ombrophilous forest. Eighteen morphological traits of functional importance for interactions between workers and the environment were measured to characterize the size and shape of the workers. In general, the results show that ants of urban areas... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Biological indicators; Atlantic Forest; Body size; Morphometric; Weber's length. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262015000100021 |
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