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Author Fu, Z.; Gerken, T.; Bromley, G.; Araújo, A.; Bonal, D.; Burban, B.; Ficklin, D.; Fuentes, J.D.; Goulden, M.; Hirano, T.; Kosugi, Y.; Liddell, M.; Nicolini, G.; Niu, S.; Roupsard, O.; Stefani, P.; Mi, C.; Tofte, Z.; Xiao, J.; Valentini, R.; Wolf, S.; Stoy, P.C. url  doi
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  Title The surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in tropical rainforests: Sensitivity to environmental drivers and flux measurement methodology Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Abbreviated Journal Agric. For. Meterol.  
  Volume 263 Issue Pages 292-307  
  Keywords Climate variability; Ecosystem respiration; Eddy covariance; Gross primary productivity; Net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange; Tropical rainforest; acclimation; air temperature; anthropogenic effect; atmosphere-biosphere interaction; biodiversity; carbon flux; climate change; Cmip; eddy covariance; environmental change; flux measurement; methodology; net ecosystem exchange; net ecosystem production; radiative forcing; rainforest; sensitivity analysis; tropical environment  
  Abstract Tropical rainforests play a central role in the Earth system by regulating climate, maintaining biodiversity, and sequestering carbon. They are under threat by direct anthropogenic impacts like deforestation and the indirect anthropogenic impacts of climate change. A synthesis of the factors that determine the net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide (NEE) at the site scale across different forests in the tropical rainforest biome has not been undertaken to date. Here, we study NEE and its components, gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) and ecosystem respiration (RE), across thirteen natural and managed forests within the tropical rainforest biome with 63 total site-years of eddy covariance data. Our results reveal that the five ecosystems with the largest annual gross carbon uptake by photosynthesis (i.e. GEP > 3000 g C m−2 y-1) have the lowest net carbon uptake – or even carbon losses – versus other study ecosystems because RE is of a similar magnitude. Sites that provided subcanopy CO2 storage observations had higher average magnitudes of GEP and RE and lower average magnitudes of NEE, highlighting the importance of measurement methodology for understanding carbon dynamics in ecosystems with characteristically tall and dense vegetation. A path analysis revealed that vapor pressure deficit (VPD) played a greater role than soil moisture or air temperature in constraining GEP under light saturated conditions across most study sites, but to differing degrees from -0.31 to -0.87 μmol CO2 m−2 s-1 hPa-1. Climate projections from 13 general circulation models (CMIP5) under the representative concentration pathway that generates 8.5 W m−2 of radiative forcing suggest that many current tropical rainforest sites on the lower end of the current temperature range are likely to reach a climate space similar to present-day warmer sites by the year 2050, warmer sites will reach a climate not currently experienced, and all forests are likely to experience higher VPD. Results demonstrate the need to quantify if and how mature tropical trees acclimate to heat and water stress, and to further develop flux-partitioning and gap-filling algorithms for defensible estimates of carbon exchange in tropical rainforests. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.  
  Address Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland  
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  Notes Export Date: 12 November 2018; Coden: Afmee; Correspondence Address: Stoy, P.C.; Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State UniversityUnited States; email: paul.stoy@montana.edu; Funding details: ANR-10-LABX-25-01; Funding details: U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, SC0011097; Funding details: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR; Funding details: 1702029; Funding details: 1552976; Funding details: Graduate School, Ohio State University; Funding details: National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, 31625006; Funding text 1: PCS and JDF acknowledges funding support from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the GoAmazon project (Grant SC0011097 ). PCS additionally acknowledges the U.S. National Science Foundation grants 1552976 and 1702029 , and The Graduate School at Montana State University . ZF is supported by the China Scholarship Council and National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 31625006 ). This work used eddy covariance data acquired and shared by the FLUXNET community, including the AmeriFlux, AfriFlux, AsiaFlux, CarboAfrica, LBA, and TERN- OzFlux networks. The FLUXNET eddy covariance data processing and harmonization was carried out by the ICOS Ecosystem Thematic Center, AmeriFlux Management Project and Fluxdata project of FLUXNET, with the support of CDIAC, and the OzFlux, ChinaFlux and AsiaFlux offices. The Guyaflux program belongs to the SOERE F-ORE-T which is supported annually by Ecofor, Allenvi and the French national research infrastructure ANAEE-F. The Guyaflux program also received support from the “Observatoire du Carbone en Guyane” and an “investissement d'avenir” grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (CEBA, ref ANR-10-LABX-25-01). Funding for the site PA-SPn was provided by the North-South Centre of ETH Zurich. 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Author Meyer-Sand, B.R.V.; Blanc-Jolivet, C.; Mader, M.; Paredes-Villanueva, K.; Tysklind, N.; Sebbenn, A.M.; Guichoux, E.; Degen, B. url  doi
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  Title Development of a set of SNP markers for population genetics studies of Ipe (Handroanthus sp.), a valuable tree genus from Latin America Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Conservation Genetics Resources Abbreviated Journal Conserv. Gen. Res.  
  Volume 10 Issue 4 Pages 779-781  
  Keywords Handroanthus sp; MassARRAY; Single nucleotide polymorphism  
  Abstract A combination of restriction associated DNA sequencing (RADSeq) and low coverage MiSeq genome sequencing was used for the development of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and INDEL (insertion/deletions) genetic markers for Ipe (Handroanthus sp.). Of the 402 putative loci identified, 389 SNPs and INDELs (315 nuclear SPNs, six chloroplast INDELs, 15 chloroplast SNPs, 12 mitochondrial INDELs and 41 mitochondrial SNPs) were successfully genotyped at 93 individuals from Brazil, Bolivia and French Guiana using a MassARRAY® iPLEX™ platform. This set of markers will be invaluable for population genetics, phylogeography and DNA fingerprinting studies. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.  
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  Notes Export Date: 12 November 2018; Correspondence Address: Blanc-Jolivet, C.; Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstrasse 2, Germany; email: celine.blanc-jolivet@thuenen.de; References: Blanc-Jolivet, C., Kersten, B., Bourland, N., Guichoux, E., Delcamp, A., Doucet, J.-L., Degen, B., Development of nuclear SNP markers for the timber tracking of the African tree species Sapelli, Entandrophragma cylindricum (2017) Conserv Genet Resour; Blanc-Jolivet, C., Kersten, B., Daïnou, K., Hardy, O., Guichoux, E., Delcamp, A., Degen, B., Development of nuclear SNP markers for genetic tracking of Iroko, Milicia excelsa and Milicia regia (2017) Conserv Genet Resour; Braga, A.C., Reis, A.M.M., Leoi, L.T., Pereira, R.W., Collevatti, R.G., Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for the tropical tree species Tabebuia aurea (Bignoniaceae) (2007) Mol Ecol Notes, 7, pp. 53-56. , COI: 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXis1Sjuro%3D; Dumolin, S., Demesure, B., Pettit, R., Inheritance of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes in pedunculate oak investigated with an efficient PCR method (1995) Theor Appl Genet, 91, pp. 1253-1256. , COI: 1:CAS:528:DyaK28XhsFKmsLo%3D; Goudet, J., Fstat (Version 2.9.3.2.): a computer program to calculate F-statistics (2002) J Heredity, 86, pp. 485-486; Grose, S.O., Olmstead, R.G., Evolution of a charismatic neotropical clade: molecular phylogeny of Tabebuia s. L crescentieae, and allied genera (Bignoniaceae) (2007) Syst Bot, 32, pp. 650-659; Jardine, D.I., Blanc-Jolivet, C., Dixon, R.R.M., Dormontt, E.E., Dunker, B., Gerlach, J., Development of SNP markers for Ayous (Triplochiton scleroxylon K. Schum) an economically important tree species from tropical West and Central Africa (2016) Conserv Genet Resour, 8 (2), pp. 129-139; Miller, M.R., Dunham, J.P., Amores, A., Cresko, W.A., Johnson, E.A., Rapid and cost-effective polymorphism identification and genotyping using restriction site associated DNA (RAD) markers (2007) Genome Res, 17, pp. 240-248. , COI: 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXhsFKis7w%3D; Pakull, B., Mader, M., Kersten, B., Ekue, M.R.M., Dipelet, U.G.B., Paulini, M., Development of nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial SNP markers for Khaya sp (2016) Conserv Genet Resour, 8 (3), pp. 283-297; Schulze, M., Grogan, J., Uhl, C., Lentini, M., Vidal, E., Evaluating Ipê (Tabebuia, Bignoniaceae) logging in amazonia: Sustainable management or catalyst for forest degradation? (2008) Biol Conserv, 141, pp. 2071-2085; Straub, S.C., Parks, M., Weitemier, K., fishbein, M., Cronn, R.C., Liston, A., Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: next-generation sequencing for plant systematics (2012) Am J Bot, 99, pp. 349-364. , COI: 1:CAS:528:DC%2BC38XksValtbo%3D Approved no  
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Author Denis, T.; Hérault, B.; Brunaux, O.; Guitet, S.; Richard-Hansen, C. url  doi
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  Title Weak environmental controls on the composition and diversity of medium and large-sized vertebrate assemblages in neotropical rain forests of the Guiana Shield Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Diversity and Distributions Abbreviated Journal Diversity Distrib.  
  Volume 24 Issue 11 Pages 1545-1559  
  Keywords biodiversity; birds; functional traits; mammals; refugia hypothesis; spatial patterns; Aves; Mammalia; Vertebrata  
  Abstract Aim: Despite their often high-trophic position and their contribution to many ecosystem functions, little is known about the factors affecting assemblage structure of medium- and large-sized neotropical vertebrates. We examined the relative roles played by the physical and biological environment, and by purely spatial processes, in shaping the composition and diversities of these vertebrate assemblages. Then, based on the theory that the Guianan forest cover shrank to isolated pockets during the late Pleistocene–Holocene, we tested if the past forest refugia may have shaped current vertebrate assemblages. Location: French Guiana, Guiana Shield, South America. Methods: Abundances of 19 medium- and large-sized vertebrates were estimated at 21 locations in undisturbed Guianan rain forests. Using taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic metrics, we partitioned the effects of a range of physical and biological environmental conditions and purely spatial predictors in shaping both assemblage composition and (alpha and beta) diversities. Results: We identified a significant, but weak relationship between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic assemblage composition and environmental conditions. Assemblage diversity patterns were mainly explained by spatial predictors irrespective of the metrics. Current assemblage diversities are correlated with Pleistocene–Holocene forest history, with the highest alpha diversities outside of putative forest refugia, and the highest beta diversities inside these areas. Main conclusions: Current vertebrate assemblage composition is not strongly marked by common environmental factors. Our main conclusion is that assemblage composition results from individual species responses to the environment. Our findings also suggest that dispersal-related processes or more probably historical processes shape (alpha and beta) diversity patterns. In fact, forest fragmentation during Pleistocene–Holocene climate changes could have led to isolated vertebrate assemblages evolving into unique species assemblages creating the current high beta diversity inside refugia, whereas the lower habitat stability outside of refugia could have led to mixed assemblages in areas recolonized by forest vertebrates (current high alpha diversity outside of refugia).  
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Author Jaouen, G.; Sagne, A.; Buyck, B.; Decock, C.; Louisanna, E.; Manzi, S.; Baraloto, C.; Roy, M.; Schimann, H. pdf  url
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  Title Fungi of French Guiana gathered in a taxonomic, environmental and molecular dataset Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Scientific data Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 206 Pages  
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  Abstract In Amazonia, the knowledge about Fungi remains patchy and biased towards accessible sites. This is particularly the case in French Guiana where the existing collections have been confined to few coastal localities. Here, we aimed at filling the gaps of knowledge in undersampled areas of this region, particularly focusing on the Basidiomycota. From 2011, we comprehensively collected fruiting-bodies with a stratified and reproducible sampling scheme in 126 plots. Sites of sampling reflected the main forest habitats of French Guiana in terms of soil fertility and topography. The dataset of 5219 specimens gathers 245 genera belonging to 75 families, 642 specimens are barcoded. The dataset is not a checklist as only 27% of the specimens are identified at the species level but 96% are identified at the genus level. We found an extraordinary diversity distributed across forest habitats. The dataset is an unprecedented and original collection of Basidiomycota for the region, making specimens available for taxonomists and ecologists. The database is publicly available in the GBIF repository ( https://doi.org/10.15468/ymvlrp ).  
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Author Salas-Lopez, A.; Violle, C.; Mallia, L.; Orivel, J. url  doi
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  Title Land-use change effects on the taxonomic and morphological trait composition of ant communities in French Guiana Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Insect Conservation and Diversity Abbreviated Journal Insect Conserv Divers  
  Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 162-173  
  Keywords Community assembly; Formicidae; functional diversity; gradient analysis; habitat filtering; land-use intensification; n-dimensional hypervolume approach  
  Abstract Abstract Land-use changes frequently lead to major changes in the composition and diversity of organisms. A reduction in the range of strategies enabling organisms to survive in a given environment and changes in the average trait values of species may potentially be associated with variations in species? number and identity. We investigated the variation in ant taxonomic composition and morphological trait diversity along a land-use gradient in French Guiana. We measured 13 core ant morphological traits on all species sampled. We then selected the set of five traits that best captured changes along the land-use gradient. Potential effects of the variation in morphological trait diversity and average values were evaluated by examining morphological traits individually as well as in combination. We found that variation in taxonomic diversity was unrelated to the plot-level morphospace. Conversely, a significant shift in taxonomic composition was accompanied by changes in the average values of community traits along the studied gradient, examined both individually and in combination. We argue that morphological trait values may be related to the success of different species in surviving in a given environment and, therefore, are indicative of the taxonomic turnover in ants along the land-use gradient. Nevertheless, in contradiction with theoretical expectations, the morphospace is only slightly affected by habitat filtering and loosely impacted by taxonomic changes. Examining the sensitivity of the morphospace to abiotic and biotic factors and how it reflects varying ecological pressures for species is thus of the utmost importance.  
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Author Orivel, J.; Klimes, P.; Novotny, V.; Leponce, M. url  doi
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  Title Resource use and food preferences in understory ant communities along a complete elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Biotropica Abbreviated Journal Biotropica  
  Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 641-648  
  Keywords altitudinal gradient; food resources; Formicidae; Mt Wilhelm; nutritional ecology  
  Abstract Elevational gradients provide an interesting opportunity for studying the effect of climatic drivers over short distances on the various facets of biodiversity. It is globally assumed that the decrease in species richness with increasing elevation follows mainly the decrease in ecosystem productivity, but studies on functional diversity still remain limited. Here, we investigated how resource use and food preferences by both individual ant species and communities foraging in the understory vary with elevation along a complete elevational gradient (200 to 3200 m asl). Five bait types reflecting some of the main ecosystem processes in which ants are involved were tested: mutualism (sucrose and melezitose), predation (live termites), and detritivory (crushed insects and chicken feces). The observed monotonic decrease in both species richness and occurrences with elevation increase was accompanied by changes in some of the tested ecosystem processes. Such variations can be explained by resource availability and/or resource limitation: Predation and bird feces removal decreased with increasing elevation possibly reflecting a decline in species able to use these resources, while insect detritivory and nectarivory were most probably driven by resource limitation (or absence of limitation), as their relative use did not change along the gradient. Consequently, resource attractiveness (i.e., food preferences at the species level) appears as an important factor in driving community structuring in ants together with the abiotic environmental conditions.  
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Author Sprenger, P.P.; Hartke, J.; Feldmeyer, B.; Orivel, J.; Schmitt, T.; Menzel, F. url  doi
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  Title Influence of Mutualistic Lifestyle, Mutualistic Partner, and Climate on Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in Parabiotic Ants Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Journal of Chemical Ecology Abbreviated Journal J Chem Ecol  
  Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 741-754  
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  Abstract A vital trait in insects is their cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profile, which protects the insect against desiccation and serves in chemical communication. Due to these functions, CHC profiles are shaped by both climatic conditions and biotic interactions. Here, we investigated CHC differentiation in the neotropical parabiotic ant species Crematogaster levior and Camponotus femoratus, which mutualistically share a nest. Both consist of two cryptic species each (Cr. levior A and B and Ca. femoratus PAT and PS) that differ genetically and possess strongly different CHC profiles. We characterized and compared CHC profiles of the four cryptic species in detail. Our results suggest that Cr. levior A, Ca. femoratus PAT and Ca. femoratus PS adapted their CHC profiles to the parabiotic lifestyle by producing longer-chain CHCs. At the same time, they changed their major CHC classes, and produce more alkadienes and methyl-branched alkenes compared to Cr. levior B or non-parabiotic species. The CHC profiles of Cr. levior B were more similar to related, non-parabiotic species of the Orthocrema clade than Cr. levior A, and the chain lengths of B were similar to the reconstructed ancestral state. Signals of both the parabiotic partner (biotic conditions) and climate (abiotic conditions) were found in the CHC profiles of all four cryptic species. Our data suggest that mutualisms shaped the CHC profiles of the studied species, in particular chain length and CHC class composition. Beside this, signals of the parabiotic partners indicate potential impacts of biotic interactions, via chemical mimicry or chemical camouflage.  
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Author Fu, T.; Houel, E.; Amusant, N.; Touboul, D.; Genta-Jouve, G.; Della-Negra, S.; Fisher, G.L.; Brunelle, A.; Duplais, C. pdf  url
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  Title Biosynthetic investigation of γ-lactones in Sextonia rubra wood using in situ TOF-SIMS MS/MS imaging to localize and characterize biosynthetic intermediates Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Scientific Reports Abbreviated Journal Sci. Rep.  
  Volume 9 Issue Pages 1928  
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  Abstract Molecular analysis by parallel tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) imaging contributes to the in situ characterization of biosynthetic intermediates which is crucial for deciphering the metabolic pathways in living organisms. We report the first use of TOF-SIMS MS/MS imaging for the cellular localization and characterization of biosynthetic intermediates of bioactive γ-lactones rubrynolide and rubrenolide in the Amazonian tree Sextonia rubra (Lauraceae). Five γ-lactones, including previously reported rubrynolide and rubrenolide, were isolated using a conventional approach and their structural characterization and localization at a lateral resolution of ~400 nm was later achieved using TOF-SIMS MS/MS imaging analysis. 2D/3D MS imaging at subcellular level reveals that putative biosynthetic γ-lactones intermediates are localized in the same cell types (ray parenchyma cells and oil cells) as rubrynolide and rubrenolide. Consequently, a revised metabolic pathway of rubrynolide was proposed, which involves the reaction between 2-hydroxysuccinic acid and 3-oxotetradecanoic acid, contrary to previous studies suggesting a single polyketide precursor. Our results provide insights into plant metabolite production in wood tissues and, overall, demonstrate that combining high spatial resolution TOF-SIMS imaging and MS/MS structural characterization offers new opportunities for studying molecular and cellular biochemistry in plants. © 2019, The Author(s).  
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Author Dejean, A.; Compin, A.; Delabie, J.H.C.; Azémar, F.; Corbara, B.; Leponce, M. url  doi
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  Title Biotic and abiotic determinants of the formation of ant mosaics in primary Neotropical rainforests Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Ecological Entomology Abbreviated Journal Ecol Entomol  
  Volume 44 Issue 4 Pages 560-570  
  Keywords Ant mosaics; connections on the ground; host tree attractiveness; indicators of disturbance; primary Neotropical rainforest; territoriality  
  Abstract 1. Ants are widespread in tropical rainforests, including in the canopy where territorially dominant arboreal species represent the main part of the arthropod biomass.
2. By mapping the territories of dominant arboreal ant species and using a null model analysis and a pairwise approach this study was able to show the presence of an ant mosaic on the upper canopy of a primary Neotropical rainforest (c. 1ha sampled; 157 tall trees from 28 families). Although Neotropical rainforest canopies are frequently irregular, with tree crowns at different heights breaking the continuity of the territories of dominant ants, the latter are preserved via underground galleries or trails laid on the ground.
3. The distribution of the trees influences the structure of the ant mosaic, something related to the attractiveness of tree taxa for certain arboreal ant species rather than others.
4. Small-scale natural disturbances, most likely strong winds in the area studied (presence of canopy gaps), play a role by favouring the presence of two ant species typical of secondary formations: Camponotus femoratus and Crematogaster levior, which live in parabiosis (i.e. share territories and nests but lodge in different cavities) and build conspicuous ant gardens. In addition, pioneer Cecropia myrmecophytic trees were recorded.
 
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Author Leponce, M.;Delabie, J.H.C.;Orivel, J.;Jacquemin, J.;Calvo Martin, M.;Dejean, A. doi  openurl
  Title Tree-dwelling ant survey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Mitaraka, French Guiana Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Zoosystema Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 40 Issue sp1 Pages 163-179  
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  Abstract Ants constitute a substantial part of the arthropod biomass in rainforests. Most studies have focused on ground-dwelling ants, which constitute almost half of the diversity of the ant assemblage. We report here the results of the first survey of tree-dwelling ants in French Guiana on a plateau and in a swamp palm forest (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) in the Mitaraka Mountains. We were interested in seeing the effect of topography and geographic distance on species richness and composition and to gather information on the species distribution on tree trunks. The fauna of Mitaraka was compared with one from a site 350 km distant (Petit Saut). In total 105 trees were sampled (30, 30, 45 in the plateau and the swamp forests of Mitaraka, and in Petit Saut plateau forest, respectively). Arboreal ants were attracted using tuna and honey baits spread along a rope reaching an upper branch, except for the palm swamp forest where the baits were only placed at 2 m high. A total of 34, 13 and 22 species were observed in these three respective sites. Six of these species are new records for French Guiana. In Mitaraka Camponotus femoratus (Fabricius, 1804) and Crematogaster leviorLongino, 2003 co-occurred on trees (parabiotic association) and were among the most common species, along with Crematogaster tenuiculaForel, 1904 which was found on other trees (species exclusion). The Mitaraka Mountains appeared more species rich and had a species composition distinct from Petit Saut. Topography also influenced ant species composition. Almost half of the species collected by the baitline method were exclusively foraging in the canopy.  
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