Fig. 4

Effect plots corresponding to the mixed models in Table 2 (gradient towards forest interior and host density as categorical variable). The plots display the partial effect of distance away from the nest and host ant density (high density: > 20 workers, low density ≤ 20 workers) on myrmecophile distribution, while other predictors are held fixed: a total species richness with increasing distance from the nearest nest (b) the change in abundance for individual myrmecophile species with increasing distance from the nearest nest (± 95% CI, 100 bootstrap replicates). These plots are related to Fig. 2. However, Fig. 2 also includes data from edge pitfalls, does not account for other predictors and its x-axis gives the distance away from the nearest nest in distance bins rather than as a continuous variable