A Systematic Review of Global Drivers of Ant Elevational Diversity.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Ant diversity shows a variety of patterns across elevational gradients, though the patterns and drivers have not been evaluated comprehensively. In this systematic review and reanalysis, we use published data on ant elevational diversity to detail the ...
Tim Szewczyk, Christy M McCain
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Species diversity and distribution patterns of the ants of Amazonian Ecuador.
PLoS ONE, 2010 Ants are among the most diverse, abundant and ecologically significant organisms on earth. Although their species richness appears to be greatest in the New World tropics, global patterns of ant diversity and distribution are not well understood.
Kari T Ryder Wilkie +2 more
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The effect of urbanization on ant abundance and diversity: a temporal examination of factors affecting biodiversity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Numerous studies have examined the effect of urbanization on species richness and most studies implicate urbanization as the major cause of biodiversity loss.
Grzegorz Buczkowski, Douglas S Richmond
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Diversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants
, 2022 Ants are a ubiquitous, highly diverse, and ecologically dominant faunal group. They represent a large proportion of global terrestrial faunal biomass and play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, and re-cyclers of nutrients.
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Ant Diversity and Community Composition in Alpine Tree Line Ecotones. [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Guariento E, Fiedler K.
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Ant Diversity and Stratification in an Amazonian Rainforest. [PDF]
Ecol EvolABSTRACT This study focuses on species occupying the three strata of an Amazonian rainforest: the ground and leaf litter, the understorey and the canopy. We employed only two sampling techniques: Winkler extraction for ground‐dwelling ants and direct observations for understorey and canopy species on large branches cut off by a ...
Delabie JHC +6 more
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Taxonomic and Functional Ant Diversity Along tropical, Subtropical, and Subalpine Elevational Transects in Southwest China. [PDF]
Insects, 2019 Fontanilla AM +6 more
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Ant genomics: strength and diversity in numbers [PDF]
Molecular Ecology, 2010 A recent workshop held at the Arizona State University Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity gathered over 50 prominent researchers from around the globe to discuss the development of genomic resources for several ant species. Ants play crucial roles in many ecological niches and the sequencing of several ant genomes promises to elucidate topics ...
Christopher D, Smith +3 more
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Functional and mechanistic diversity in ant tandem communication [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Communication is fundamental to the organization of animal societies, often resulting in the convergent evolution of similar social behavior across lineages. However, this similarity may conceal underlying functional and mechanistic differences.
Nobuaki Mizumoto +6 more
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The diversity of microorganisms associated with Acromyrmex leafcutter ants [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2002 Molecular biological techniques are dramatically changing our view of microbial diversity in almost any environment that has so far been investigated. This study presents a systematic survey of the microbial diversity associated with a population of Acromyrmex leafcutter ants.
Van Borm, S. +2 more
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