Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

Figure 4

Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of ant community (a) and other arthropod communities (b), using Bray-Curtis similarity measure based on presence/absence transformed data of ants and square-root transformed data of other arthropods in secondary forest (solid black circles) and pine plantation (white circles). Both litter ant assemblages and other litter arthropods assemblages show strong compositional differences in relation to forest type.

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