Compound nesting of Strumigenys sp. (Myrmicinae) and Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae), and other nesting symbioses of myrmicine and ponerine ants in Southeast Asia

Kaufmann, Eva; Malsch, Annette K. F.; Erle, M.; Maschwitz, U.

doi:10.1007/s000400300014

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“…Interestingly, the positively associated species pairs all were of different sizes, whereas the one pair of mutually exclusive species was of similar size. This corroborates the suggestion that co-existence in the same nest site is more likely among species of different body sizes (Kaufmann et al, 2003). However, body size is but one trait that affects interspecific interactions; and limiting similarity may apply for a wide variety of further ecological traits.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…In our dataset, one Polyrhachis and two Pheidole species always co-occurred with the same Diacamma species, suggesting a close relationship between them and Diacamma. Such intriguing associations have been shown before for other members of these genera (Polyrhachis: social parasitism; Pheidole: cleptobiosis; (Kaufmann et al, 2003;Maschwitz et al, 2000), which underpins the biological relevance of our results.…”

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Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities

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a b s t r a c tEcological communities are structured by competitive, predatory, mutualistic and parasitic interactions combined with chance events. Separating deterministic from stochastic processes is possible, but finding statistical evidence for specific biological interactions is challenging. We attempt to solve this problem for ant communities nesting in epiphytic bird's nest ferns (Asplenium nidus) in Borneo's lowland rainforest. By recording the frequencies with which each and every single ant species occurred together, we were able to test statistically for patterns associated with interspecific competition. We found evidence for competition, but the resulting co-occurrence pattern was the opposite of what we expected. Rather than detecting species segregationdthe classical hallmark of competitiondwe found species aggregation. Moreover, our approach of testing individual pairwise interactions mostly revealed spatially positive rather than negative associations. Significant negative interactions were only detected among large ants, and among species of the subfamily Ponerinae. Remarkably, the results from this study, and from a corroborating analysis of ant communities known to be structured by competition, suggest that competition within the ants leads to species aggregation rather than segregation. We believe this unexpected result is linked with the displacement of species following asymmetric competition. We conclude that analysing cooccurrence frequencies across complete species assemblages, separately for each species, and for each unique pairwise combination of species, represents a subtle yet powerful way of detecting structure and compartmentalisation in ecological communities.

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Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities

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“…Presently there is no record of springtail from the nests of any Neotropical Ponerinae. In this subfamily, the occurrence of springtails has been recorded until now only in parabiotic nests of an African Platythyrea, as well as in a compound nest of an Asiatic Diacamma with dacetine ants (Kaufmann et al 2003;Yéo et al 2006) In the present study we record for the first time several springtail species in nests of the Ponerinae ants Mayaponera constricta (Mayr) and Neoponera inversa (Smith) collected in cacao plantations of the south of the state of Bahia, Brazil. Both ant species belong to the Pachycondyla genus group of the tribe Ponerini actually (Schmidt & Shattuck 2014).…”

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Springtails (Collembola) from Nests of Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Ants in Brazilian Cacao Plantations

Castaño-Meneses¹,

Palacios‐Vargas

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et al. 2014

Florida Entomologist

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“…Associations between ant species are highly diverse and vary in multiple aspects such as spatial association of the species' nest chambers, reciprocal hostility or tolerance, mutual dependence, positive and negative effects on each other, and use of the partner's communication system (Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990;Kaufmann et al, 2003). For example, two ant species may live in adjacent nests but not interact otherwise (plesiobiosis; Czechowski, 2004).…”

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Behavioural and chemical mechanisms behind a Mediterranean ant–ant association

Menzel

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Blüthgen

et al. 2010

Ecological Entomology

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1. Interspecific competition among ants is common, and so is competitive exclusion among dominant ant species. In contrast, specific associations between nonparasitic ant species are rare, especially in the temperate zones. As an exception, the subordinate ant Camponotus lateralis frequently co-occurs with the dominant Crematogaster scutellaris but rarely with other dominant ants.2. This association is one of various associations between Camponotus and Crematogaster species across the world. However, the mechanisms behind these cooccurences are largely unknown.3. In the present study, we therefore investigated the association of Ca. lateralis and Cr. scutellaris. We studied the spatial association of the nests, interspecific aggression, both species' cuticular hydrocarbon profiles, and their propensity to follow the other species' pheromone trails.4. Crematogaster scutellaris usually attacked and displaced the generally submissive Ca. lateralis, but was significantly less aggressive at jointly used trails. Camponotus nests were always in close proximity to Crematogaster nests.5. The cuticular hydrocarbons of both species consisted of alkanes with chain lengths between C21 and C35. The two species had 25 hydrocarbons in common, including mono-, di-, and tetramethyl alkanes. Despite this qualitative similarity, however, the quantitative hydrocarbon composition differed between the two species.6. Camponotus lateralis followed artificial trails containing trail pheromones of Cr. scutellaris, but the latter did not follow Ca. lateralis trail pheromones. Interspecific trail-following by Camponotus, but not vice versa, has been observed in another Camponotus-Crematogaster association and may be a more general mechanism that facilitates associations between the two ant genera.

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Compound nesting of Strumigenys sp. (Myrmicinae) and Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae), and other nesting symbioses of myrmicine and ponerine ants in Southeast Asia

Cited by 17 publications

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Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities

Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities

Springtails (Collembola) from Nests of Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Ants in Brazilian Cacao Plantations

Behavioural and chemical mechanisms behind a Mediterranean ant–ant association

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