Rapid ant community reassembly in a N eotropical forest: Recovery dynamics and land‐use legacy
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Regrowing secondary forests dominate tropical regions today, and a mechanistic understanding of their recovery dynamics provides important insights for conservation. In particular, land‐use legacy effects on the fauna have rarely been investigated. One of the most ecologically dominant and functionally important animal groups in tropical forests are the ants. Here, we investigated the recovery of ant communities in a forest–agricultural habitat mosaic in the Ecuadorian Chocó region. We used a replicated chronosequence of previously used cacao plantations and pastures with 1–34 years of regeneration time to study the recovery dynamics of species communities and functional diversity across the two land‐use legacies. We compared two independent components of responses on these community properties: resistance, which is measured as the proportion of an initial property that remains following the disturbance; and resilience, which is the rate of recovery relative to its loss. We found that compositional and trait structure similarity to old‐growth forest communities increased with regeneration age, whereas ant species richness remained always at a high level along the chronosequence. Land‐use legacies influenced species composition, with former cacao plantations showing higher resemblance to old‐growth forests than former pastures along the chronosequence. While resistance was low for species composition and high for species richness and traits, all community properties had similarly high resilience. In essence, our results show that ant communities of the Chocó recovery rapidly, with former cacao reaching predicted old‐growth forest community levels after 21 years and pastures after 29 years. Recovery in this community was faster than reported from other ecosystems and was likely facilitated by the low‐intensity farming in agricultural sites and their proximity to old‐growth forest remnants. Our study indicates the great recovery potential for this otherwise highly threatened biodiversity hotspot.
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- Authors
- Hoenle, P. O., Donoso, D. A., Argoti, A., Staab, M., von Beeren, C., & Blüthgen, N.
- Affiliations
- Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE)
- Universidad Indoamérica (EC)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (EC)
- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology Technical University of Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany
- Corresponding author
- Hoenle, Philipp O.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Ecological Applications
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-05-03
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- e2559-e2559
- ISSN
- 1051-0761 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-5582
- OpenAlex
- W4210812316
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 4.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Ecological Applications (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (BE 5177/4‐1)
- Escuela Politécnica Nacional (PII‐ICB‐02‐2017, PII‐DB‐2019‐02)
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Keywords
- ant communities, community recovery, land use legacy, secondary forest regeneration, cocoa plantations, pasture, resistance and resilience, functional diversity, species composition, tropical forest conservation, Chocó
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Animals, Ants, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Forests
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