Dataset on the abundance of ants and Cosmopolites sordidus damage in plantain fields with intercropped plants

Anicet Gbèblonoudo Dassou; Dominique Carval; Sylvain Dépigny; Gabriel Fansi; Philippe Tixier

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.08.027

Dataset on the abundance of ants and Cosmopolites sordidus damage in plantain fields with intercropped plants

Data Brief. 2016 Aug 22:9:17-23. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.08.027. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Authors

Anicet Gbèblonoudo Dassou¹, Dominique Carval², Sylvain Dépigny³, Gabriel Fansi⁴, Philippe Tixier⁵

Affiliations

¹ CIRAD, Persyst, UPR GECO, TA B-26/PS4, Boulevard de la Lironde, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; CARBAP, African Research Centre on Bananas and Plantains, BP 832 Douala, Cameroon; Laboratory of Biotechnology, Genetic Resources and Plant and Animal Breeding (BIORAVE), Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Dassa, Polytechnic University of Abomey, 01 BP 14 Dassa-Zoumè, Benin.
² CIRAD, Persyst, UPR GECO, TA B-26/PS4, Boulevard de la Lironde, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; CIRAD, UPR GECO, F-97285 Le Lamentin, Martinique, France.
³ CIRAD, Persyst, UPR GECO, TA B-26/PS4, Boulevard de la Lironde, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; CARBAP, African Research Centre on Bananas and Plantains, BP 832 Douala, Cameroon.
⁴ CARBAP, African Research Centre on Bananas and Plantains, BP 832 Douala, Cameroon.
⁵ CIRAD, Persyst, UPR GECO, TA B-26/PS4, Boulevard de la Lironde, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; Departamento de Agricultura y Agroforesteria, CATIE, 7170, Cartago, Turrialba 30501, Costa Rica.

Abstract

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Ant abundance and Cosmopolites sordidus damage in plantain fields as affected by intercropping" (A.G. Dassou, D. Carval, S. Dépigny, G.H Fansi, P. Tixier, 2015) [1]. This article describes how associated crops maize (Zea mays), cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) and bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) intercropped in the plantain fields in Cameroun modify ant community structure and damages of banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus. The field data set is made publicly available to enable critical or extended analyzes.

Keywords: Ant community; Associated crops; C. sordidus; Cameroon; Damages; Plantain.