An assessment of leaf-litter and epigaeic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) living in different landscapes of the Atlantic Forest Biome in the State of Bahia, Brazil

• DOI: 10.12976/jib/2017.5.19
• Publication Date: 2017-11-15T05:50:15Z
• Authors: Roberta De Jesus ...; Elmo Borges Azeve...; Clarissa Machado ...; Tiago Jordão Porto; Jacques Hubert Ch...
• Keywords: Biome; Atlantic forest

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest has a rich biodiversity increasingly threatened by human activities. Since the colonial period, coast of state Bahia is among most affected regions Brazil anthropic pressure. encloses remnants distributed in an area reaching 100-200 km along east-west axis, 1,000 north-south parallel to Ocean. We report hereafter results intensive field survey leaf litter and epigaeic ants realized forest landscapes within original extension biome 11 localities four degrees latitude Bahia. In each site, 16 plots were collected using pitfall eight Winkler traps. identified 391 ant species belonging 71 genera nine subfamilies. Among all recorded, 21 common whole localities, while 98 recorded single locality. This study highlights richness diversity leaf-litter living northern part Forest, one representative soil ants’ inventories ever done this for Brazil.