Removing understory vegetation in oil palm agroforestry reduces ground-foraging ant abundance but not species richness
Amelia SC Hood,
Andreas D Advento,
Jake Stone,
Tom M Fayle,
Alice LM Fairnie,
Helen S Waters,
William A Foster,
Jake L Snaddon,
Sudharto Ps,
Jean-Pierre Caliman,
Mohammad Naim,
Edgar C Turner
Jul 23, 2020
Ants are known to provide valuable ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, including oil palm plantations. Their communities are less diverse and more uneven in oil palm compared with forest, and this may increase their...