Table 3. Abundant ground-foraging ant species. Species shown are those found at many baits or with a high average abundance score within a site. Sites are ordered from low to high herbaceous cover. The top two values in a cell show the total number of baits a species occupied within a site (out of a possible 56) and the average abundance score at those baits. The bottom value in a cell is the proportional abundance score for a species within a site. The derivations of these values are explained in the methods section. The proportional abundances were all multiplied by 100 to eliminate decimal places. Looking at the scores across a row shows how a species' occurrence at baits changes as the amount of herbaceous cover increases. Examining each column reveals the relative dominance of each species within a site.

site 231 336 208 3 7 101 306 322 22 73 79 77 Crematogaster cerasi 5-Apr 28 2-Jan 3 4-Mar 17 1/4.0 6 10/2.6 36               Crematogaster lineolata         2/3.5 10       1/6.0 8 1/5.0 7 1/2.0 3   Monomorium viride   2/6.0 17               4/4.3 24     Odontomachus brunneus 10/1.3 18 17/1.4 32 10/1.2 17 5/1.0 7 1/1.0 1 12/1.5 25 2/1.0 3 4/1.0 6 4/1.3 7     14/1.1 22 Phediole moerens   4/1.3 7   1/1.0 1   1/3.0 4       6/4.0 33   1/5.0 7 Phediole dentata 13/4.3 78 15/2.8 58 23/3.6 114 16/3.2 71 8/3.5 39   18/4.2 104 14/4.6 90 8/3.6 40 3/5.0 21   1/3.0 4 Phediole morrisi 23/5.3 169 2/5.5 15 9/4.8 60   3/4.3 18           4/3.5 19 Solenopsis carolinensis 2/2.0 6 9/3.0 38 2/3.5 10 3/2.5 10 5/3.0 21 4/4.8 26 2/3.0 8 4/2.0 11 1/4.0 6 1/1.0 1   2/2.0 6 Solenopsis invicta       1/2.0 3 1/5.0 7 2/6.0 17 17/4.4 103 2/3.0 8 15/4.4 92 45/4.2 328 43/4.9 290 18/5.6 139