Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

Table 4

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

Forest type	Pine plantation		Secondary forest
	Coleoptera	0.067	0.441	0.819	−0.058
Collembola	—	—	0.244	0.289
Diplura	—	—	0.803	−0.063
Diptera	0.900	−0.032	0.661	0.111
Dictyoptera	—	—	0.541	−0.154
Ephemeroptera	—	—	0.603	0.132
Grylloblattodea	—	—	0.893	−0.034
Hemiptera	0.518	0.163	0.014	−0.566
Homoptera	—	—	0.332	−0.243
Heteroptera	—	—	0.917	0.026
Lepidoptera	—	—	0.603	0.132
Orthoptera	—	—	0.027	−0.519
Phasmida	—	—	0.063	0.447
Protura	—	—	0.244	0.289
Thysanoptera	—	—	0.565	0.146
Acari	0.687	−0.102	0.366	0.227
Araneae	0.497	0.171	0.579	0.140