Scientific Reports, 2021 Fragmented natural habitats within human-transformed landscapes play a key role in preserving biodiversity. Ants as keystone species are essential elements of terrestrial ecosystems; thus, it is important to understand the factors influencing their ...
Balázs Deák +8 more
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Ants mediate the structure of phytotelm communities in an ant-garden bromeliad [PDF]
, 2010 The main theories explaining the biological diversity of rain forests often confer a limited understanding of the contribution of interspecific interactions to the observed patterns.
Alain Dejean +6 more
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Promoting Search Diversity in Ant Colony Optimization with Stubborn Ants
Procedia Computer Science, 2012 AbstractIn ant colony optimization (ACO) methods, including Ant System and MAX-M IN Ant System, each ant stochastically generates its candidate solution, in a given iteration, based on the same pheromone T and heuristic η information as every other ant.
Ashraf M. Abdelbar, Donald C. Wunsch II
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Measuring diversity of socio-cognitively inspired ACO search [PDF]
, 2016 In our recent research, we implemented an enhancement of Ant Colony Optimization incorporating the socio-cognitive dimension of perspective taking. Our initial results suggested that increasing the diversity of ant population - introducing different ...
Byrski, Aleksander +7 more
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Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 AbstractThe latitudinal diversity gradient—the tendency for more species to occur toward the equator—is the dominant pattern of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms responsible for it remain largely unexplained. Recently, the analysis of global data has led to advances in understanding, but these advances have been mostly limited to vertebrates and trees ...
Evan P. Economo +4 more
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Connectivity Explains Local Ant Community Structure in A Neotropical Forest Canopy: A Large‐Scale Experimental Approach [PDF]
, 2019 Understanding how habitat structure and resource availability affect local species distributions is a key goal of community ecology. Where habitats occur as a mosaic, variation in connectivity among patches influences both local species richness and ...
Adams, Benjamin J. +2 more
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Physical and land-cover variables influence ant functional groups and species diversity along elevational gradients [PDF]
, 2013 Of particular importance in shaping species assemblages is the spatial heterogeneity of the environment. The aim of our study was to investigate the influence of spatial heterogeneity and environmental complexity on the distribution of ant functional ...
A Compin +64 more
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Evolution of cuticular hydrocarbon diversity in ants [PDF]
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2011 The cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) of ants provide important cues for nest-mate and caste recognition. There is enormous diversity in the composition of these CHCs, but the manner in which this diversity has evolved is poorly understood. We gathered data on CHC profiles for 56 ant species, relating this information to their phylogeny.
E. van WILGENBURG +2 more
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Diversity, prevalence and virulence of fungal entomopathogens in colonies of the ant Formica selysi [PDF]
, 2012 The richness of the parasitic community associated with social insect colonies has rarely been investigated. Moreover, understanding how hosts and pathogens interact in nature is important to interpret results from laboratory experiments.
Chapuisat, M, Reber, A.
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Intraspecific variation in thermal acclimation and tolerance between populations of the winter ant, Prenolepis imparis. [PDF]
, 2020 Thermal phenotypic plasticity, otherwise known as acclimation, plays an essential role in how organisms respond to short-term temperature changes.
Angilletta M. J. +6 more
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