Diversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Andersen, Alan N. (Editor)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Materias:	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
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