Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

Table 3

Pearson’s correlation () and associated probability () between the abundance of ants and the abundance of other arthropods associated with leaf litter.

Forest type	Pine plantation		Secondary forest
	Coleoptera	0.137	0.588	0.289	0.245
Collembola	—	—	0.201	0.423
Diplura	—	—	0.335	0.175
Diptera	0.223	0.374	−0.220	0.380
Dictyoptera	—	—	−0.032	0.899
Ephemeroptera	—	—	0.336	0.227
Grylloblattodea	—	—	0.227	0.366
Hemiptera	−0.180	0.476	−0.670	0.002
Homoptera	—	—	0.090	0.722
Heteroptera	—	—	0.138	0.586
Lepidoptera	—	—	−0.167	0.508
Orthoptera	—	—	0.064	0.801
Phasmida	—	—	−0.287	0.248
Protura	—	—	0.284	0.254
Thysanoptera	—	—	0.410	0.091
Acari	−0.013	0.954	0.082	0.746
Araneae	0.411	0.090	−0.523	0.026