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    Ant return in rehabilitated mineral sand mines on North Stradbroke Island

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    Majer, Jonathan
    Date
    1984
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Majer, J. D. (1984). Ant return in rehabilitated mineral sand mines on North Stradbroke Island. In: (eds. R. J. Coleman, J. Covacevich & P. Davies) Focus on Stradbroke: New Information on North Stradbroke Island and Surrounding Areas, 1974-1984. Boolarong Press, Brisbane. 325-332.
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    School of Agriculture and Environment
    Department of Environmental Biology
    Faculty of Science and Engineering
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    Reference Number: #BC3

    PDF file is available from Jonathan Majer Email: J.Majer@curtin.edu.au

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45594
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    The ant fauna of 12 sand mine plots representing a range of rehabilitation ages and three undisturbed vegetation controls was surveyed during 1982. Physical and botanical parameters were also measured in each plot. Sixty-four ant species were collected from the 15 study plots. Forty-four species had colonized one or more of the mine plots. Ant recolonization proceeded rapidly in plots up-to 6 years old and may have been influenced with time, by plant cover and diversity variables, the amount of litter and by the paucity of logs. The older plots exhibited a lower ant species richness and this is believed to have resulted from interspecific competition with the tramp ant species, Pheidole megacephala. Ant succession proceeded in a slower fashion in the P. megacephala dominated plots.

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