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Are Leaf-Litter Ants (Formicidae) Distributed Differentiated between Inner Zones of Natural Treefall Gaps?
Marcelo Cesar Lima Peres1,Katia Regina Benati11, Marcelo Alves Dias1,Daniela Uzel Sena4,Alessandra Rodrigues S.de Andrade3,Tercio da Silva Melo3,Marcos Vinicius Alvim Guimaraes1,Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie5
2.Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Planejamento Ambiental (PPGPA) da Universidade Catolica do Salvador (UCSal), Bahia, Brasil.
3.Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ecologia e Biomonitoramento da Universidade Federal da Bahia,Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
4.Faculdade Estacio de Alagoas (FAL). Alagoas, Maceio, Brasil.
5.Laboratorio de Mirmecologia, UESC/CEPLAC, Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil
Citation :Marcelo Cesar Lima Peres,et.al, Are Leaf-Litter Ants (Formicidae) Distributed Differentiated between Inner Zones of Natural Treefall Gaps? International Journal of Research Studies in Biosciences 2017,5(7) : 60-68
This paper investigates the structure and distribution of the leaf-litter ant's assemblage between the inner zones of natural Treefall Gaps in a Atlantic forest remnant in Bahia southern. The study was conducted in the Ecological Reserve Michelin-REM a remnant of 180 ha. Samples of 1m2 litter were collected in the root,trunk and canopy areas in six natural Treefall Gaps, totaling 36m2of litter from which the ants were extracted using mini-Winkler traps. We recorded 77 ant species distributed in 25 genus and six subfamilies. There wasn't significant difference in species composition and richness among the three zones. The leaf litter depth and the luminosity did not differ between the three areas, when treefall gaps had only one month of formation, but iffered when the treefall gaps reached one year of formation. Different from what has been widely observed in plant organisms,the inner zonation of small Treefall Gaps (40 to 80m2) does not affect the structure of the leaflitter ant assemblage in the Atlantic forest.