Ants of the Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Deyrup, Mark; Trager, James

doi:10.2307/3494763

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“…From a biogeographical perspective, elements of ant faunas from the tropical West Indies, temperate North America, and even genera associated with southwestern North American deserts can be found within the state (Deyrup and Trager 1986). Florida also harbors many introduced organisms (Simberloff 1997) including more than 50 exotic ant species (Deyrup, Davis, and Cover 2000).…”

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Ant community change across a ground vegetation gradient in north Florida's longleaf pine flatwoods.

Lubertazzi

Tschinkel

2003

Journal of Insect Science

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Ant communities in longleaf pine habitats are poorly known and hence the naturally occurring ant assemblages of a large portion of southeastern North America are not well understood. This study examined the diverse ant community found in the longleaf pine flatwoods of north Florida and tested how ant diversity changes along a herbaceous ground cover gradient. Restoring the ground cover to its original floral composition is an important focus of longleaf pine conservation and hence it is important to understand how native faunal communities vary with ground cover variation. Using 4 sampling methods, we characterized the ant community and analyzed its within-habitat variation among 12 study sites. We found the highest plot species richness (55 species) and within-habitat species richness (72 species) ever recorded for North American ants. The ants formed three distinct communities. The low-diversity arboreal and subterranean assemblages varied little across forest stands while the diversity of the species-rich ground foraging ant community was negatively correlated with percent herbaceous cover. The imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (monogyne form), was unexpectedly found to be abundant in high herbaceous cover sites. Floral restoration of the pine flatwoods, which is increasing the proportion of herbaceous cover, is likely to cause an increase in the abundance of the imported fire ant.ANFApalachicola National Forest

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Ant community change across a ground vegetation gradient in north Florida's longleaf pine flatwoods.

Lubertazzi

Tschinkel

2003

Journal of Insect Science

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“…Van Pelt (1956) found 72 species (12.5% uniques) for the 882ha Welaka Reserve in Florida. Deyrup and Trager (1986) found 102 species (9% uniques) for the 1771ha Archbold Biological Station in Florida. Studies in the wet tropics have reported much higher species richness.…”

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“…Inventories involving both sustained effort and a variety of sampling methods, with the express purpose of capturing the entire fauna, are relatively rare. Notable examples include Van Pelt (1956) for the Welaka Reserve, Florida; Talbot (1975) for the E. S. George Reserve, Michigan; and Deyrup and Trager (1986) for Archbold Biological Station, Florida. Tropical rain forest studies include Verhaag (1990Verhaag ( , 1991 for Panguana Reserve, Peru, and Brü hl et al (1998) for Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Borneo.…”

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The Ant Fauna of a Tropical Rain Forest: Estimating Species Richness Three Different Ways

Longino¹,

Coddington²,

Colwell³

2002

Ecology

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Species richness is an important characteristic of ecological communities, but it is difficult to quantify. We report here a thorough inventory of a tropical rain forest ant fauna and use it to evaluate species richness estimators. The study was carried out in ~ 1500 ha of lowland rain forest at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Diverse methods were used, including canopy fogging, Malaise traps, Berlese samples, Winkler samples, baiting, and manual search. Workers of 437 ant species were encountered. The abundance distribution was clearly lognormal, and the distribution emerged from a veil line with each doubling of sampling effort. Three richness estimates were calculated: the area under the fitted lognormal distribution, the asymptote of the Michaelis-Menten equation fit to the species accumulation curve, and the Incidence-based Coverage Estimator (ICE). The performance of the estimators was evaluated with sample-based rarefaction plots. The inventory was nearly complete because the species accumulation curve approached an asymptote, the richness estimates were very close to the observed species richness, and the uniques and duplicates curves were both declining. None of the richness estimators was stable in sample-based rarefaction plots, but regions of stability of estimators occurred. The explanation of rarity is one key to understanding why richness estimates fail. Fifty-one species (12% of the total) were still uniques (known from only one sample) at the end of the inventory. The rarity of 20 of these species was explained by "edge effects": "methodological edge species" (possibly abundant at the site but difficult to sample because of their microhabitat), and "geographic edge species," known to be common in habitats or regions outside of La Selva. Rarity of 31 species remained unexplained. Most of the 51 rare species were known from additional collections outside of La Selva, either in other parts of Costa Rica or in other countries. Only six species were "global uniques," known to date from only one sample on Earth. The study demonstrates that patterns of species occurrence early in an inventory may be inadequate to estimate species richness, but that relatively complete inventories of species-rich arthropod communities are possible if multiple sampling methods and extensive effort are applied.

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“…Scrub-like vegetation began to appear in the fossil record in the early Tertiary. This once vast ecosystem originated in the southern Rockies and northern Mexico, spreading east along the Gulf Coast to Florida (Mark Deyrup, Entomologist, Archbold Biological Station, FL, professional discussion, 14 January 1998 [hereafter referred to as M. Deyrup, 14 January 1998]; Axelrod 1958). During the late Pleistocene, the Earth's climate was cooler and dryer than it is today and scrub vegetation was probably widespread on the Florida peninsula (Myers 1990).…”

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“…Florida scrub is also home to a variety of invertebrates, a number of which have only recently been identified (M. Deyrup, 14 January 1998). Many insects are endemic to xeric scrub communities.…”

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Management of Florida Scrub for Threatened and Endangered Species

MacAllister¹,

Harper²

1998

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Florida Scrub on military installations supports a number of land uses including the Department of Defense (DoD) training and testing mission and threatened, endangered, and sensitive species (TES) conservation. This report documents strategies to manage TES and their habitat on a plant community basis, using methods that apply to multiple species occurring in scrub within the state of Florida. This report provides ecological descriptions of the community, along with available information about community occurrence on DoD installations in Florida. CO o CO o CD Known occurrences of plant and animal TES are also included. Known and potential impacts to the integrity of the community as TES habitat and to associated species are reported. Impacts are related to habitat fragmentation, and changes in community composition, structure and function due altered fire regime, hydrologic patterns, groundcover integrity or the invasion of exotic species. Management recommendations are made within as ecosystem based, adaptive management context.

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Ants of the Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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Ant community change across a ground vegetation gradient in north Florida's longleaf pine flatwoods.

Ant community change across a ground vegetation gradient in north Florida's longleaf pine flatwoods.

The Ant Fauna of a Tropical Rain Forest: Estimating Species Richness Three Different Ways

Management of Florida Scrub for Threatened and Endangered Species

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