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<p>Sampling design and microhabitat characterization of <i>Atta</i> colonies in Santander, Colombia.</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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ecological consequences
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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>(A) Morphological detail of an <i>A. cephalotes</i> soldier. (B) Morphological detail of an <i>A. laevigata</i> soldier. Both depicted individuals were collected from colonies situated in the “La Siberia” location (geographic coordinates in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0351518#pone.0351518.s002" target="_blank">S1 Table</a>; each small square = 1 mm). (C) Topographic distribution of sampled colonies; markers represent individual nest locations with proportional pie charts indicating species composition at each site, where green represents <i>A. cephalotes</i> and orange with a diagonal hatch pattern represents <i>A. laevigata</i>. (D) Representative canopy cover of a typical <i>A. cephalotes</i> microhabitat; the selected image corresponds to a site with a canopy openness percentage (indicated in panel) approximating the mean estimate for the species. (E) Representative canopy cover of a typical <i>A. laevigata</i> microhabitat; the selected image corresponds to a site with a canopy openness percentage (indicated in panel) approximating the mean estimate for the species. Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation. The map contains information from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation, which is made available under the Open Database License. Map generated using Python 3.12.3 with the Matplotlib, Geopandas, and Contextily libraries.</p>
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