Diversity and Resilience of Seed-Removing Ant Species in Longleaf Sandhill to Frequent Fire
Diversity, 2022 Prescribed fire is used globally as a habitat restoration tool and is widely accepted as supporting biotic diversity. However, in fire-prone ecosystems, research has sometimes documented post-fire reduction in ant diversity and accompanying changes in ...
Rachel A. Atchison, Andrea Lucky
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Contribution of wet zone coconut plantations and non-agricultural lands to the conservation of ant communities (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sri Lanka [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2020 Agricultural practices are blamed for the reduction of ant diversity on earth. Contribution of four coconut plantations (CP) and four non-agricultural lands (NL) for sustaining diversity and relative abundance of ground-dwelling and ground-foraging ants ...
R.K.S. Dias, W.P.S.P. Premadasa
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, 2019 Aim to study the whole genome of cultured and uncultured microbes present within the ant gut environment can only be determined by using the advanced technology used is Next-generation sequencing (NGS) tool.
Shivasharana Chandrabanda Timmappa +1 more
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Towards the development of sustainable control options for the African root and tuber scale on cassava in Central Africa : understanding the biology and ecology of the tending ant "Anoplolepis tenella" (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]
, 2011 Anoplolepis tenella Santschi is an afrotropical ant widely distributed in the forest zones of Central Africa. It is the most frequent species associated with the African root and tuber scale (ARTS) Stictococcus vayssierei (Hemiptera: Stictococcidae), an ...
Fotso Kuate, Apollin
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Ant recognition cue diversity is higher in the presence of slavemaker ants [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2015 Social insect colonies defend themselves from intruders through nestmate recognition, yet the evolution and maintenance of recognition cue diversity is still poorly understood. We compared the recognition cue diversity of 9 populations of Temnothorax longispinosus ant colonies, including populations that harbored the socially parasitic slavemaker ant ...
Evelien Jongepier, Susanne Foitzik
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Dominance–diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2018 AbstractThe relationship between levels of dominance and species richness is highly contentious, especially in ant communities. The dominance‐impoverishment rule states that high levels of dominance only occur in species‐poor communities, but there appear to be many cases of high levels of dominance in highly diverse communities.
Arnan, Xavier +44 more
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Fossil Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation
Sociobiology, 2015 A broad range of interesting fossil insects have been discovered recently in Kishenehn Formation shale (middle Eocene, ca. 46 myo) in northwestern Montana, among them a diversity of ant species.
John S Lapolla, Dale E Greenwalt
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Nectar theft and floral ant-repellence : A link between nectar volume and ant-repellent traits? [PDF]
, 2012 This work was supported by Sir Harold Mitchell Scholarship Fund and University of St Andrews Russell Trust Award. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.As flower ...
Gavin Ballantyne (140036) +9 more
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Synthetic Genes for Artificial Ants. Diversity in Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
International Journal of Computers Communications & Control, 2010 Inspired from the fact that the real world ants from within a colony are not clones (although they may look alike, they are different from one another), in this paper, the authors are presenting an adapted ant colony optimisation (ACO) algorithm that incorporates methods and ideas from genetic algorithms (GA). Following the first (introductory) section
Sorin C. Negulescu +2 more
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Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants [PDF]
Diversity and Distributions, 2011 AbstractAim To use a fine‐grained global model of ant diversity to identify the limits of our knowledge of diversity in the context of climate change.Location Global.Methods We applied generalized linear modelling to a global database of local ant assemblages to predict the species density of ants globally.
Jenkins, CN +20 more
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