Table 2. Associations between the most frequent species (relative frequency >5%) from the three transects sorted by decreasing rank of occurrence and tested using Chi-square tests (1 d.f., Yates' correction).

		Relative frequency	Species	1	2	3	4	5
Coastal	1	70%	Technomyrmex albipes
transect	2	15%	Brachymyrmex cordemoyi	X
	3	9%	Tetraponera longula	X	0
	4	6%	Camponotus sp.4	X	+	0
Inland 1	1	21%	Crematogaster ranavalonae
transect	2	19%	Crematogaster kelleri	0
	3	12%	Cremato. madagascariensis	0	+
	4	6%	Crematogaster rasoherinae	0	0	0
	5	6%	Camponotus sp.1	0	0	0	0
	6	5%	Crematogaster sp.1	0	0	0	0	0
Inland 2	1	20%	Crematogaster ranavalonae
transect	2	16%	Technomyrmex albipes	[−]
	3	15%	Brachymyrmex cordemoyi	[−]	+
	4	10%	Cremato. madagascariensis	0	0	0
	5	5%	Tapinoma subtile	0	0	0	0

Symbols indicate the nature of the association.: +: positive, [−] negative, 0: not significant. X indicates that the test is meaningless since Technomyrmex albipes is present in every sample.