Diversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants

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