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<p>Multivariate assessment of mound architecture, edaphic properties, and thermal regulation across sampling locations.</p>
Diego Garcia Castillo (25157692)
Cell Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Ecology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Plant Biology
type vegetation density
scale environmental gradients
realized niche breadth
interspecific niche partitioning
integrating hemispherical photography
excluding others according
114 colonies across
strong ecological filter
generalist ecological strategies
ecological niche breadth
principal component analysis
narrower edaphic dispersion
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principal axes
microclimatic data
macroclimatic conditions
edaphic profiles
woody ecosystems
wider range
warmer micro
use change
urban areas
regional transect
previous reports
predominantly associated
neotropical leaf
mound architecture
microhabitat conditions
generalism vs
findings suggest
colombian andes
canopy areas
anthropogenic filters
<p>Box-and-whisker plots <b>(A–E)</b> illustrate the intraspecific and interspecific variation for A. <i>cephalotes</i> (green) and <i>A. laevigata</i> (orange) across twelve distinct geographic sites. <b>(A)</b> <i>Mound Area</i>, presented as Log<sub>10</sub>-transformed values (cm<sup>2</sup>) to normalize the highly skewed distribution of colony sizes. <b>(B)</b> <i>Shape Ratio</i>, defined as the degree of surface symmetry. <b>(C) Soil pH</b>, representing the chemical conditions of the mound substrate. <b>(D)</b> <i>Light Percentage</i>, indicating the level of canopy openness at the nest site. <b>(E)</b> <i>Temperature Difference</i>, representing the thermal gradient between the internal colony core at ~10 cm and the external environment (°C). Shaded boxes denote the interquartile range (IQR), horizontal lines represent the median, and whiskers extend to 1.5 times the IQR. Two-letter codes at the base of each distribution correspond to specific sampling locations (e.g., MF: Montefrio, NZ: Nemizaque, etc.; see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0351518#pone.0351518.s015" target="_blank">S1 Table</a> for full location metadata).</p> <p>(DOCX)</p>
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10.1371/journal.pone.0351518.s010
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