Similarity among eucalyptus planted areas based on leaf-cutting ant nest sizes

Daniela Maria Lemos Barbato Jacobovitz; Joissy Mayara de Almeida Andrade; Jean-Jacques Georges Soares De Groote

doi:10.4336/2022.pfb.42e201902071

Authors

Daniela Maria Lemos Barbato Jacobovitz Educacros/Barbato Estudos de Engenharia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7028-107X
Joissy Mayara de Almeida Andrade Eficiente Soluções Florestais Ltda https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2454-9554
Jean-Jacques Georges Soares De Groote Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-6747

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4336/2022.pfb.42e201902071

Keywords:

Spatial distribution, Pest management, Planted forests

Abstract

Techniques for leaf-cutting ant control have been investigated in literature due to the importance of the damage they cause to agriculture. Plantations with large territorial extensions, which can be contiguous or not, are usually subdivided into local administration to collect data to determine the frequencies and area occupied by ant nests. The objective of this work was to build a relationship of similarities among different geographical regions using the frequency data and size of nests by applying Information Bottleneck method and principal component analysis. The approach was applied to data of leaf-cutting ants of the genus Atta in cultivated Eucalyptus spp. forests in São Paulo State, Brazil. The results showed similar regions that are not geographically close, regarding the occurrence of nests. With this information, administrators will be able to coordinate more precisely the allocation of bait, material and workers in regions with vast territories, avoiding resources waste.

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Author Biographies

Daniela Maria Lemos Barbato Jacobovitz, Educacros/Barbato Estudos de Engenharia

http://lattes.cnpq.br/9841908360954150

Joissy Mayara de Almeida Andrade, Eficiente Soluções Florestais Ltda

http://lattes.cnpq.br/2504326451904922

Jean-Jacques Georges Soares De Groote, Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda

http://lattes.cnpq.br/1664164937735219

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