Fonseca & Ganade
(1996)
General information
This study
was done in the Central Amazonian rainforest, north of Manaus, Amazonas,
Brazil from June through August in 1990. The main objectives were
to quantitatively describe the ant-myrmecophyte matrix, to search
for patterns of compartmentalization, and to compare the results
from the ant-plant system with those from other mutualistic systems.
Data type
The authors
recorded their data by counting the number of visits of each ant
species to each plant species. Data are presented as an interaction
frequency matrix, in which cells with positive integers indicate
the frequency of interaction between a pair of species, and cells
with zeros indicate no interaction.
Source
Fonseca, C.R.,
and G. Ganade. 1996. Asymmetries, compartments and null interactions
in an Amazonian ant-plant community. Journal of Animal Ecology 66:
339-347.
Data files
Text format:
interaction
matrix (no species names)
Excel format:
interaction
matrix (includes species lists)
