Epigaeic invertebrate community structure in two subtropical nature reserves, Eastern Cape, South Africa: Implications for conservation management

Niba, Augustine; Yekwayo, Inam

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“…Berman, Andersen, Hély, and Gaucherel () found that ants were more abundant in disturbed habitats than undisturbed habitats. Disturbed grassland in Tanglewood and Giba Gorge Reserves consisted of patches of alien invasive plants, which are responsible for modifying habitats, food resources and biotic interactions and provide optimum and suitable resources to ground‐dwelling arthropods (Niba & Mafereka, ; Niba & Yekwayo, ). The impact of alien plants on insect assemblages is not always negative because alien plants may provide nesting and foraging sites (Harris, Toft, Dugdale, Williams, & Rees, ), or may be dominated by arboreal ants which may further enhance the diversity of these areas, as some species that nest in trees also forage on the ground.…”

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Epigaeic ant diversity and distribution in the Sandstone Sourveld in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

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Ants are sensitive to habitat change and may be affected by disturbances, such as alien plant invasion. Alien plant invasion is associated with negative effects on the functioning of ecosystems and may have adverse impacts on biodiversity. The aim of this study was to determine the diversity of ground‐dwelling ants in Tanglewood and Giba Gorge Reserves in KwaZulu‐Natal Province, South Africa. Ants were sampled in the wet and dry seasons. Pitfall trap sampling was carried out in an intact grassland, forest and a disturbed grassland. We collected 360 samples resulting in a total of 2,577 occurrences comprising of 54 species. We found that diversity of ants in the two sites was influenced by vegetation type. The intact grassland in the two reserves had greater diversity (40 ± 4.45) of ants compared with forest (22 ± 4.86) and disturbed grassland (27 ± 1.15); however, the disturbed grassland supported higher ant occurrences (50.03 ± 31.6). Opportunists represented the most diverse functional group with 17 species followed by specialist predators with 13 species and generalised Myrmicinae with 10 species. These results suggest that grassland disturbance by alien plant invasion provides suitable environmental conditions that may increase ant occurrences but decrease ant diversity.

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“…In addition, the validity of its C. oertzeni aeolia Forel, 1911 subspecies from Turkey remains disputed, and this issue requires further studies (Borowiec, 2014;Karaman & Kiran, 2017). Most members of the genus Carebara are very small subterranean ants that are often associated with decaying wood and leaf litter (Aldawood et al, 2011;Bharti & Kumar, 2013;Niba & Yekwayo, 2016). However, very little information is available on their natural history because of their often cryptic lifestyle, and C. oertzeni had only previously been reported from the outer wall of an adobe house (Karaman & Kiran, 2017) and at the foot of oleanders .…”

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First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel, 1886 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Albania

Purkart¹,

Jablonski²,

Christophoryová³

2019

Nat. Croat.

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The first record of the rare ant Carebara oertzeni Forel, 1886 from Albania is reported. Two workers of C. oertzeni were discovered in the southeastern part of the country, near the village of Benjë-Novoselë. So far, it is the northernmost known distribution of this very rarely collected species, the sole representative of its genus in Europe, whose previous records all come from Greece and Turkey. In addition, we also found a specimen determined as the Proceratium melinum Roger, 1860 worker ant in the same soil sample.

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Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of South Africa

Dippenaar-Schoeman,

Haddad,

Lotz

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A checklist of 2265 spider species and subspecies, 495 genera and 71 families is provided. Data were extracted from the South African National Survey of Arachnida database and over 200 taxonomic revisions, ending December 2022. Global distributions, endemicity and conservation assessment using IUCN Criteria are provided for each species. A total of 1325 spp. are endemic to South Africa (58.5%), 126 spp. (5.6%) are of special concern and 693 spp. (30.6%) are Data Deficient (DD), while 15 species were described without exact locality data. Most species (1444 spp., 63.8%) are widely distributed with no known threats and are of Least Concern. A total of 1316 spp. (57.6%) are known from both sexes and 23 spp. (1.0%) were described from juveniles. Salticidae is the most species-rich family (354 spp.), followed by Gnaphosidae (195 spp.), Thomisidae (143 spp.) and Araneidae (100 spp.) and ten families are represented by a single species.

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Epigaeic invertebrate community structure in two subtropical nature reserves, Eastern Cape, South Africa: Implications for conservation management

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Epigaeic ant diversity and distribution in the Sandstone Sourveld in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

Epigaeic ant diversity and distribution in the Sandstone Sourveld in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel, 1886 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Albania

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Epigaeic invertebrate community structure in two subtropical nature reserves, Eastern Cape, South Africa: Implications for conservation management

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Epigaeic ant diversity and distribution in the Sandstone Sourveld in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

Epigaeic ant diversity and distribution in the Sandstone Sourveld in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel, 1886 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Albania

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