2010
DOI: 10.1590/s1519-566x2010000600009
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Abstract: Edited by Paulo R Pereira -EMBRAPA Neotropical Entomology 39(6):906-911 (2010) The Bamboo Merostachys fi scheriana (Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) as a Canopy Habitat for Ants of Neotropical Montane Forest ABSTRACT -Although Merostachys fi scheriana is very abundant in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, little attention has been paid to the biological interactions with other animals. The present study describes some of the interactions between ants and this bamboo species. The experiment was carried out in a fr… Show more

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“…Our results surpassed the expected in the literature for ants nesting in natural or artificial cavities (Philpott & Foster, 2005;Ambrecht et al, 2006;Cobb et al, 2006;Davidson et al, 2006;Fagundes et al, 2010;Houdeshell et al, 2011). We found 43% occupancy rate of natural-nests, and 19% occupancy of artificial-nests.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 46%
“…Our results surpassed the expected in the literature for ants nesting in natural or artificial cavities (Philpott & Foster, 2005;Ambrecht et al, 2006;Cobb et al, 2006;Davidson et al, 2006;Fagundes et al, 2010;Houdeshell et al, 2011). We found 43% occupancy rate of natural-nests, and 19% occupancy of artificial-nests.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 46%
“…In our study sites, many nests can be characterized as temporary because only workers and immature ants were found. This result suggests the presence of satellite nests, as observed for C. brasiliensis Mayr [27] and Pachycondyla villosa (Fabricius) [43]. The existence of satellite nests increases the chances of defending a given territory and increases the survival of the colony itself, which is at the greatest risk of predation when concentrated in one place [42,[44][45][46].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…One hole was 2 mm diameter in the middle of the bamboo, and one was 6 mm diameter near to the node ( Figure S2). Previous studies showed that entrance size affects ant species preference for the nests (Powell et al, 2011) and that length and diameter of cavity affects the ants nesting in bamboos (Arruda et al, 2016;Fagundes et al, 2010). Our modification (two cavity sizes, two entrance sizes, longer bamboo) was thus intended to increase the chance of occupancy of our artificial nests by a wider range of species.…”
Section: Artificial Nest Design and Placementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Experiments have already been successfully conducted by adding ant colonies into the ecosystem (Fowler, 1993) or translocating colonies of single species using semi-artificial nests (Peng, Nielsen, Offenberg & Birkmose, 2013;Riginos et al, 2015). At the level of whole ant communities, artificial bamboo nests have been used successfully for experimentally testing the effect of nest additions to the ecosystem (Davidson et al, 2006;Philpott & Foster, 2005), entrance-nest sizes (Arruda et al, 2016;Fagundes, Terra, Ribeiro & Majer, 2010;Jimenez-Soto & Philpott, 2015;Powell, 2009), vegetation connectance (Powell et al, 2011), and competitive interactions (Mathis, Philpott & Ramirez, 2016). The method is popular due to low cost, ease of manipulation of nests, and the ability to standardize in terms of bamboo species and cavity size.…”
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confidence: 99%