Ants of the CTFS-ForestGEO Plot at Harvard Forest
- HF-ID: HF2020-03
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Ellison, A.M.
- Associated Person: Valasco, M., Anderson, M.
- Date: 2018
- Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- field notebooks for ant collection data in the Harvard Forest megaplot. 2.
- Keywords: entomology
- Abstract:
- Foundation species in forests are hypothesized to control the diversity of associated organisms and modulate core ecosystem processes. At Harvard Forest, eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is a foundation species, but its relationship to local biodiversity has not been explored in detail. This project examined co-occurrence relationships (using codispersion statistics) between forest trees and ants in the 35-hectare Forest Dynamics Plot in the Prospect Hill tract at Harvard Forest ("megaplot"), in which more than 100,000 woody stems have been identified, mapped, and measured.
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