How do termite inquilines manage to cohabit termitaria along with the termite builder species?
Daniela Faria Florencio, Alessandra Marins, Cassiano Sousa Rosa, Paulo Fellipe Cristaldo,Ana Paula Albano Araújo, Ivo Ribeiro Silva, Og DeSouza 2013, 'Diet Segregation between Cohabiting Builder and Inquiline Termite Species', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0066535. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Inquiline species distribution among termitaria was not random.
Daniela Faria Florencio, Alessandra Marins, Cassiano Sousa Rosa, Paulo Fellipe Cristaldo,Ana Paula Albano Araújo, Ivo Ribeiro Silva, Og Desouza 2013, 'Diet Segregation between Cohabiting Builder and Inquiline Termite Species.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3689842?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Twenty-six ant species had true colonies within the termitaria.
Pollyanna Pereira Santos, Alexandre Vasconcellos, Benoit Jahyny, Jacques Hubert CharlesDelabie 2010, 'Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) associated to arboreal nests of Nasutitermes spp:(Isoptera, Termitidae) in a cacao plantation in southeastern Bahia, Brazil Mirmecofauna(Hymenoptera, Formicidae) associada a ninhos arborícolas de Nasutitermes spp: (Isoptera,Termitidae) num cacaual do sudeste da Bahia, Brasil', Revista Brasileira de Entomologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262010000300016. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Additionally, diet segregation among inquilines themselves was also observed in the vast majority of inspected termitaria.
Daniela Faria Florencio, Alessandra Marins, Cassiano Sousa Rosa, Paulo Fellipe Cristaldo,Ana Paula Albano Araújo, Ivo Ribeiro Silva, Og DeSouza 2013, 'Diet Segregation between Cohabiting Builder and Inquiline Termite Species', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0066535. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A further group of communities represent thickets on termitaria with floristic affinities to both savanna and forest.
P.J. van Staden, G.J. Bredenkamp 2006, 'A floristic analysis of forest and thicket vegetation of the Marakele National Park',Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Sciencehttps://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/109. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)