Researchers studying arboreal ants in a Florida forest explore the fundamental question of how resource availability and competition shape biodiversity.
The fundamental question of biodiversity research aims to better understand how many different species manage to coexist in one place. A group of researchers believe they now have a more robust picture of what this looks like at some of the finest local scales ever studied.Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
"The ant species we examined in this study only live in this unique patch of land off the tip of Florida and the Florida Keys. So, understanding what determines how many species are in this rare environment is a key question for conservation efforts," Max Adams, first study author and former postdoc at the George Washington University, says.
At the scale of the whole tree, resource availability is more important. Determining how many species live in one tree is dependent on the amount of dead wood available. "This research reveals that both resource availability and competition among species are important for maintaining biodiverse communities, and that the relative importance of these two processes is dependent on the scale at which we examine biodiversity patterns," Powell says.
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