Red wood Ants (Formica rufa-group) prefer mature pine forests in Variscan granite environments (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Red wood Ants (Formica rufa-group) prefer mature pine forests in Variscan granite environments (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

We used presence/absence data of 5,160 red wood ant nests (RWA; Formica polyctena) acquired in a systematic large-scale area-wide survey in two study areas (≈350 ha) in the Oberpfalz, NE Bavaria, Germany to explore for the first time the influence of variable (e.g., forest type, tree age) and quasi...

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Main Authors: Gabriele M. Berberich, Martin B. Berberich, Matthias Gibhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University La Sapienza of Rome 2022-05-01
Series:Fragmenta entomologica
Subjects:
Red wood ants (Formica polyctena)
variable and quasi-invariant factors
forest types
tree age classes
Variscan Granites
geochemical composition of bedrock
Online Access:https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/fragmenta_entomologica/article/view/474

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