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Abstract
We examined habitat disturbance, species richness, equitability, and abundance of ants in the Fall-Line Sandhills, at Fort Benning, Georgia. We collected ants with pitfall traps, sweep nets, and by searching tree trunks. Disturbed areas were used for military training; tracked and wheeled vehicles damaged vegetation and soils. Highly disturbed sites had fewer trees, diminished ground cover, warmer soils in the summer, and more compacted soils with a shallower A-horizon. We collected 48 species of ants, in 23 genera (141,468 individuals), over four years of sampling. Highly disturbed areas had fewer species, and greater numbers of ants than did moderately or lightly disturbed areas. The ant communities in disturbed areas were also less equitable, and were dominated by Dorymyrmex smithi.
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1 Department of Biology, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, 30149 [email protected]
2 Department of Biology, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, 30149 [email protected]; Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida, 32312-0918
3 Department of Biology, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, 30149 [email protected]; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 40121
4 Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, 86301
5 USGS Biological Resources Division, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98115
6 Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
7 Department of Biology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409
8 Department of Landscape Architecture and Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 61820
9 U.S. Army ERDC-CERL, Champaign, Illinois, 61826