Ant Mortality with Food Competition in Forests along a Temperature Gradient.

ABSTRACT: The authors elucidated the relationship between temperature and mortality due to food competition in ant communities in forests. A field experiment was conducted using four bait types at six different oak forest sites with different mean annual temperatures in South Korea. The mortality rate due to food competition showed a hump-shaped trend, with temperature distribution being higher at study sites with intermediate temperatures and a linear trend increasing or decreasing with temperature along the temperature gradient. In most species, the mortality rate due to interspecific competition was higher than that due to intraspecific competition, but the dominant species, which were less affected by other species, had a higher mortality rate due to intraspecific competition. In subordinate spe

SUBMITTER: Kwon TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9032073 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature