The vegetation on wood ant mounds is denser and more developed than in the direct surrounding of the mound, more than on an abandoned
wood ant mound and more than on a wood ant mound without dead vegetable material (sand mound).
mean weight of one plant/leave in gram **) |
minimum-maximum (mean) length in cm ***) |
plant species |
woodant mound details |
1,4 |
1,0 - 13,2 (7,5) |
Carex arenaria |
Formica rufa-mound; vegetation of Carex arenaria restricted to the mound, not in the ditrect surrounding (n=86) |
0,7 |
1,0 - 11,4 (5,8) |
Carex arenaria |
Recently (< 1 year) abandoned Formica rufa-mound (n=73) |
0,3 |
0,3 - 5,4 (2,9) |
Carex arenaria |
250 cm around the abandoned Formica rufa-mound (n=109) |
0,5 |
1,1 - 8,3 (2,7) |
Carex arenaria |
Formica polyctena nest without vegetable matter (whole nestpopulation lives in sand for still more than ten years) (n=127) |
0,35 |
0,6 - 5,1 (1,9) |
Carex arenaria |
250 cm around the sand nest of Formica polyctena (n=102) |
0,76 |
9,9 - 20,1 (15,3) |
Convallaria majalis |
Formica rufa-mound in a vegetation of Convallaria majalis (n=86) |
0,64 |
8,1 - 18,3 (14,0) |
Convallaria majalis |
Most developed plants in the same Convallaria majalis-vegetation, outside the Formica rufa mound, same surface as the wood ant mound (n=160) |
0,34 |
8,2 - 17,2 (11,5) |
Convallaria majalis |
250 cm around the same Formica rufa-mound (n=157) |