Ecological Archives E088-089-A4

Jordi Moya-Laraño and David H. Wise. 2007. Direct and indirect effects of ants on a forest-floor food web. Ecology 88:1454–1465.

Appendix D. Additional results for field experiment 1.

FigD1
 

   FIG. D1. Ant activity (mean ± SE) at the different baits during field experiment 1. The left column shows ant activity measured as the average number of ants per day on a bait, while the right column shows ant activity measured as the total number of days that at least one worker was present at the bait (see text for details). Other refers to ants that were on the cardboard but not at any specific bait. For simplicity, statistical tests comparing control and baited plots were performed for the pooled category only. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.001, *** P < 0.0001 (Mann-Whitney U-tests).     

 

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   FIG. D2. Final ant densities in the leaf litter (mean ± SE) in field experiment 1. Statistics on overall ant densities are in the text. *** P < 0.001 (Mann-Whitney U-tests followed by the sequential Bonferroni correction).

 

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   FIG. D3. Final biomass (Mean ± SE) of the functional groups of abundant GP in field experiment 1 that did not respond to the treatment. Top: sit-and-wait ant-feeding GP, MANOVA, Wilks´ Lambda = 0.893, P = 0.187; Middle: small GP, Wilks´ Lambda = 0.916, P = 0.151; Bottom:  active non-ant feeding GP, Wilks´ Lambda = 0.939, P = 0.452.

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