ArticleOecologia2026
Habitat filtering, not dispersal limitation, drives ant and termite community assembly along a tropical forest regeneration gradient.
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Regenerating forests comprise a significant proportion of tropical forest ecosystems, yet species assembly mechanisms after anthropogenic disturbances remain poorly understood. Locally established ant communities follow predictable paths along forest regeneration gradients, but whether this results from dispersal limitation or habitat filtering is unclear. Social insects, with highly mobile dispersing reproductives (alates) but sessile colony stages, provide a window to disentangle these mechanisms. We compared assemblages of dispersing alates to workers from established colonies of ants and termites along a chronosequence in the Chocó lowland tropical forest, Ecuador. Our study area comprises a regeneration gradient where agricultural land, regenerating forests (1-37 years old), and old-growth forests are interspersed across a 200-km
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