Lenticular mounds in the African savannahs can originate from ancient Macrotermes mounds

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• 作者：G. Josens ; K. Dosso ; S. Konaté
• 关键词：Isoptera ; Termites ; Odontotermes ; Mound erosion ; Lamto
• 刊名：Insectes Sociaux
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：63
• 期：3
• 页码：373-379
• 全文大小：633 KB
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• 作者单位：G. Josens (1)
  K. Dosso (2)
  S. Konaté (2)
  
  1. Département de Biologie des Organismes, Ecologie végétale et biogéochimie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
  2. Unité de Recherche Ecologie et Biodiversité, Université Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Zoology
  
• 出版者：Birkh盲user Basel
• ISSN：1420-9098
• 卷排序：63

文摘

Small lenticular soil mounds are scattered in several African savannahs. At Lamto, Côte d’Ivoire, most of these lenticular mounds house nests of Odontotermes aff. pauperans which have to date been thought to have built them. However, repeated observations made in 2000 and 2015 supply several arguments in favour of another hypothesis, namely that after a nest of Macrotermes has been abandoned and eroded, it could be colonized by O. aff. pauperans and subsequently maintained, stabilized, by this latter species or possibly recolonized by another Macrotermes society. Keywords Isoptera Termites Odontotermes Mound erosion Lamto