Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

Figure 5

(a) Dendrogram generated by clustering with group-average linkage from Bray-Curtis matrix calculated from presence/absence transformed abundance data of ant species at each sampling point within secondary forest (solid black in color) and pine plantation (white in color). Grouping at 14.5% similarity splits sampling points in two forest types (SIMPROF; 8, ). (b) Dendrogram generated by clustering with group-average linkage from Bray-Curtis matrix calculated from square-root transformed abundance data of other arthropods at each sampling point within secondary forest (solid black in color) and pine plantation (white in color). Solid lines indicate significant different groups of samples, and grouping at 12.64% similarity splits sampling points more or less into forest types (SIMPROF, , ).

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