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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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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2022 Ant species are highly sensitive to environmental changes, and ant community structure can be shaped by environmental heterogeneity and interspecific interactions.
Juliana Kuchenbecker +2 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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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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Partitioning the impact of environment and spatial structure on alpha and beta components of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in European ants [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 We analyze the relative contribution of environmental and spatial variables to the alpha and beta components of taxonomic (TD), phylogenetic (PD), and functional (FD) diversity in ant communities found along different climate and anthropogenic ...
Xavier Arnan, Xim Cerdá, Javier Retana
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Double Ant Colony Algorithm Based on Collaborative Mechanism and Dynamic Regulation Strategy
Jisuanji kexue yu tansuo, 2021 Aiming at the problem that the ant colony algorithm has slow convergence rate and poor diversity in solving traveling salesman problem (TSP), double ant colony algorithm based on collaborative mechanism and dynamic regulation strategy is proposed ...
MENG Jingwen, YOU Xiaoming, LIU Sheng
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Diversity, 2023 We document unrecognised diversity within the Tetramorium spininode Bolton group of the Australian monsoonal tropics, which has a single described species. At the time of its description, T.
Alan N. Andersen +2 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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Arboreal ant colonies as 'hot-points' of cryptic diversity for myrmecophiles: the weaver ant Camponotus sp. aff. textor and its interaction network with its associates. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 INTRODUCTION:Systematic surveys of macrofaunal diversity within ant colonies are lacking, particularly for ants nesting in microhabitats that are difficult to sample.
Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud +1 more
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Can Monoculture Timber Plantations Conserve More Ant Communities Than Adjacent Natural Forests?
Diversity, 2022 Understanding where biodiversity is and how it is distributed is crucial to conserving vulnerable and dynamic ecosystems. Although natural forests support greater diversity and are vital for the conservation of organisms, recent studies have argued that ...
Thembekile A. Mthimunye +1 more
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