Beta diversity of ants in oil palm

What is it about?

The diversity of ground-foraging ants in oil palm is not as low as might be expected of a typical agricultural matrix. Our study shows that with larger sample sizes and considering multiple spatially discrete sites, ant diversity in oil palm increases. Although there are still fewer species in oil palm than in forest, our results suggest that the effects of forest conversion to oil palm on ant diversity will be misrepresented if only a few small samples are compared.

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