Data Analysis
To understand whether ant species richness differed between habitat types, we used an analysis of variance (ANOVA). Ant community structure
was compared between different land-use types
within each study area based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity index and further analyzed using nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). Significance tests for differences in community composition between land-use types were performed
using the analysis of similarity test (ANOSIM;
Clarke 1993). All analyses were performed using
R statistic (R Core Team 2014).