Table 2. Matrix of the frequency of each obligate ant-myrmechophyte interaction observed in continuous forest (all plots combined).
| Continuous Forest | ||||||||||||
| Ants1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | U2 | |
| Ad | Ao | As | Az | Cab | Cl | Me | Pc | Pn | Pm | |||
| Plants 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cp | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2 | Cn | 1 | 39 | 96 | ||||||||
| 3 | Ds | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 4 | Hm | 8 | 220 | 81 | 62 | |||||||
| 5 | Hp | 23 | 10 | 3 | 2 | |||||||
| 6 | Mg | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 | Mm | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 | Pr | 1 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Tm | 5 | 26 | 11 | 9 | |||||||
| 10 | Tp | |||||||||||
| 11 | Tv | 10 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Tb | 9 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
Numbers in bold are the same as those used to identify species in Figures 1 and 2. Note that unoccupied plants (U) of all species were primarily seedlings [31].
Ant species: 1 Allomerus decemarticulatus (Ad), 2 Allomerus octoarticulatus (Ao), 3 Allomerus septemarticulatus (As), 4 Azteca spp. (Az), 5 Camponotus balzani (Cab), 6 Crematogaster laevis (Cl), 7 Myrcidris epicharis (Me), 8 Pseudomyrmex concolor (Pc), 9 Pseudomyrmex nigrescens (Pn), 10 Pheidole minutula (Pm).
Unoccupied plants (U).
Plant species: 1 Cecropia purpurascens (Cp), 2 Cordia nodosa (Cn), 3 Duroia saccifera (Ds), 4 Hirtella myrmecophila (Hm), 5 Hirtella physophora (Hp), 6 Maieta guianensis (Mg), 7 Myrcia madida (Mm), 8 Porouma spp. (Pr), 9 Tachigali myrmecophila (Tm), 10 Tachigali pumblea (Tp), 11 Tachigali venusta (Tv), 12 Tococa bullifera (Tb).