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Effects of Peri-Urbanization on Coastal Sage Scrub Ant Species in Baja California
Diversity, 2023 Increasing urbanization on the Baja California Peninsula threatens ant diversity. Reductions in ant species diminish ecosystem services provided to semiarid coastal scrub areas.
Alejandro E. Mieles +2 more
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Population Diversity in Ant-inspired Optimization Algorithms
Computer Science, 2021 Finding a balance between exploration and exploitation is very important in the case of metaheuristics optimization, especially in the systems leveraging population of individuals expressing (as in Evolutionary Algorithms, etc.) or constructing (as in Ant Colony Optimization) solutions.
Aleksander Byrski +7 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 In spite of the ecological dominance of Neotropical ants and termites, little is understood about how their interactions influence their species richness and distribution.
Amy L. Mertl +3 more
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An ant system algorithm for automated trajectory planning [PDF]
, 2010 The paper presents an Ant System based algorithm to optimally plan multi-gravity assist trajectories. The algorithm is designed to solve planning problems in which there is a strong dependency of one decision one all the previously made decisions. In the
Vasile, M., Ceriotti, M.
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Ants as flower visitors : floral ant-repellence and the impact of ant scent-marks on pollinator behaviour [PDF]
, 2012 As flower visitors, ants rarely benefit a plant, commonly disrupting pollination by deterring other flower visitors, or stealing nectar. This thesis examines three aspects of ant-flower interactions, focusing on the occurrence of floral traits that ...
Ballantyne, Gavin
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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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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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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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Agronomy, 2022 We aimed at assessing the role of ecological infrastructures (EI) in promoting ant biodiversity in floodplain Mediterranean agricultural crops. We examined and compared ant communities at the interface between EI (remnant vegetation patches) and ...
Vera Zina +6 more
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The Megadiverse Australian Ant Genus Melophorus: Using CO1 Barcoding to Assess Species Richness
Diversity, 2016 Melophorus is an exceptionally diverse ant genus from arid Australia that has received little taxonomic attention, such that just a fraction of its remarkable number of species is described.
Alan N. Andersen +2 more
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