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Removal of Nonmyrmecochorous Seeds by Ants: Role of Ants in Cattle Grasslands
Table 5
Ant genus classification of ants attracted to baits into the functional groups established by Silvestre et al. [
35].
| Item | Functional guild (sensu Silvestre et al. [35]) | Genus attracted to baits |
| (1) | Omnivorous soil dominants | Crematogaster, Pheidole, Solenopsis | (2) | Large epigean predators | Ectatomma | (3) | Cryptic fungus growers attines | Cyphomyrmex | (4) | Leaf-cutter attines | Atta | (5) | Agile pseudomyrmecinae | Pseudomyrmex | (6) | Soil and vegetation opportunistics | Nylanderia | (7) | Small arboreal ants with massive recruitment | Wasmannia | (8) | Cryptic ponerinae, specialized predators | Hypoponera |
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