Habitats shape taxonomic and functional composition of Neotropical ant assemblages

• Published in: Oecologia Vol. 189; no. 2; pp. 501 - 513
• Main Authors: Fichaux, Mélanie, Béchade, Benoît, Donald, Julian, Weyna, Arthur, Delabie, Jacques Hubert Charles, Murienne, Jérôme, Baraloto, Christopher, Orivel, Jérôme
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Science + Business Media 01.02.2019; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Analysis; Ants; Assembly; Biodiversity and Ecology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Communities; Community ecology; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY - ORIGINAL RESEARCH; Competition; competitive exclusion; Composition; Ecology; Environmental Sciences; Filtration; forest habitats; Forests; Formicidae; French Guiana; Habitat selection; Habitats; Hydrology/Water Resources; Interactions; Leaf litter; Leaves; Life Sciences; Litter; Litters (births); multivariate analysis; Plant Sciences; Plateaus; Swamps; Taxonomy; traps; Tropical climate; Tropical forests; Understory; French Guiana; Formicidae; Rainforest; Habitat filtering; Traits; Functional diversity; functional diversity; rainforest; traits; habitat filtering

Determining assembly rules of co-occurring species persists as a fundamental goal in community ecology. At local scales, the relative importance of environmental filtering vs. competitive exclusion remains a subject of debate. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of habitat filtering a...