In tropical rain forests, high canopy trees have diverse and abundant populations of ants and spiders. However, accessing high trees and their fauna remains difficult; thus, how ants and spiders interact in the canopy remains unclear. To better un...
Contributions from the Biological Laboratory Kyoto University 30(2) 77-84 2015年 [査読有り]
This study presents a species inventory of sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), together with descriptions of their habitat types, in lowland tropical rainforests in the middle reaches of the Baram River Basin, Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia). Thirty...
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 4(20) 3929-3939 2014年11月 [査読有り]
Many ant species construct subterranean nests. The presence of their nests may explain soil respiration hot spots, an important factor in the high CO2 efflux from tropical forests. However, no studies have directly measured CO2 efflux from ant nes...
In Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak Borneo, we observed foraging habits of four sympatric army ant species of the genus Aenicters: A. laeviceps (F. Smith, 1857), A. dolmas Forel, 1911, A. gracilis Emery, 1893, and A. inflatus Yamane & Hashimoto...
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