Evidence of Competition Between Two Canopy Ant Species: Is Aggressive Behavior Innate or Shaped by a Competitive Environment?

Table 2

Student-Newman-Keuls (𝐻=77.1648) comparisions for each treatment of dyadic encounters listed in Table 1 (significative 𝑃-values in evidence).

		1	2	3	4	5	6
		Control C. rufipes Itacolomi	Control C. rufipes UFJF	Control C. sericeiventris UFJF	Neighbours	Same species	Different species
1	Control C. rufipes Itacolomi	—	0.0031 *	0.7043	<0.0001*	<0.0001*	0.4172
2	Control C. rufipes UFJF		—	0.0008 *	0.0344	0.0355	0.0002*
3	Control C. sericeiventris UFJF			—	<0.0001*	<0.0001*	0.6659
4	Neighbours				—	0.9891	<0.0001*
5	Same species					—	<0.0001*
6	Different species						—

Itacolomi: Itacolomi State Park; UFJF: Campus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.