Food resource and temporal partitioning amongst a guild of predatory agroecosystem-inhabiting ant species.pdf

CurrentZoology 55(5)：366—375，2009 Food resource and temporal partitioning amongst a guild of predatoryagroecosystem-inhabitingantspecies VivekMohanAGARWAL，NeelkamalRASTOGI CenterofAdvancedStudyinZoology，BanarasHinduUniversity，Varanasi一221005，U．P．，India Abstract Preydiversityand temporalforagingpatternsofsixabundant，predatoryantspeciesWeFeinvestigated seasonallyinan agroecosystem withtwomainvegetablecrops．Pheidolesp．demonstratedthehighestpredationsuccessandthereforeappearstobe thedominantspecieswhileTapinomamelanocephalum showedthelowe