Diversity, biogeography and community ecology of ants

• Main Author: Andersen, Alan N. (Alan Neil)
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI 2022; MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
• Subjects: ancestral state reconstruction; ant; ant diversity; antbird; ants; army ant; bait; behavioral interactions; biodiversity; biogeography; biological indicator; biological invasions; burrow commensal; centre of origin; climate change; climatic gradients; co-occurrence; coexistence; commensalism; community structure; competitive exclusion; conservation; cryptic species; deforestation; dispersal routes; distribution ranges; diversity; Dolichoderinae; dominance; endemic species; endosymbiont; food specialisation; Formicidae; gopher tortoise; habitat fragmentation; hypogaeic; interactions; invasion ecology; invasive species; mimicry; morphospecies; myrmecophiles; n/a; phylogeny; physiology; pitfall; red imported fire ant; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; refugium areas; Research and information: general; sampling methods; scale; soil arthropods; species checklist; species delimitation; species distribution models; species interactions; species occurrence; species richness; stratification; sympatric association; temperature; tropics; turnover; urban ecology; vertical transmission; wet tropics

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. They have particularly important interactions with plants as...