Arboreal ants of Gorgona National Park (Pacific of Colombia)

 

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Nhiều tác giả: Chacón de Ulloa, Patricia, Valdés-Rodríguez, Stephany, Hurtado-Giraldo, Alejandra, Pimienta, María Cleopatra
Định dạng: artículo original
Trạng thái:Versión publicada
Ngày xuất bản:2014
Miêu tả:Despite the strong microclimatic fluctuations, scarcity of nesting sites and unpredictable prey availability in open environments, ants are the dominant invertebrates in the tropical forest canopy. This study focused on the arboreal ants in Gorgona National Park, Colombia, a rainforest ecosystem (27ºC, 6 000mm average annual rainfall). In November 2007, 16 trees were sampled by fogging them with a biodegradable pyrethroid insecticide in four levels between 1 and 15 m above the understory vegetation. We found 53 species of Formicidae (24 genera and six subfamilies): two subfamilies had the most species: Formicinae (20 species) and Myrmicinae (17). The most abundant were arboreal species of Azteca, Dolichoderus (D. bispinosus and D. lutosus), Camponotus (C. atriceps, C. claviscapus, C. championi, C. excisus) and Crematogaster (C. brasiliensis, C. carinata, C. curvispinosa). Some species that are common at ground level (Wasmannia auropunctata and Camponotus sericeiventris) were collected up to a height of 15 m. We remark the capture of Nesomyrmex pittieri, Crematogaster stolli, Cephalotes basalis, Anochetus bispinosus and Stigmatomma mystriops, species rarely found using conventional methods. Rev. Biol. Trop. 62 (Suppl. 1): 277-287. Epub 2014 February 01.
Quốc gia:Portal de Revistas UCR
Tổ chức giáo dục:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Ngôn ngữ:Español
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Từ khóa:composición de hormigas
técnica de nebulización
distribución vertical
forrajeo
bosque lluvioso tropical
ants composition
fogging technique
vertical stratification
foraging
tropical rain forest