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Open AccessGlobal biogeographic regions for ants have complex relationships with those for plants and tetrapods
On a global scale, biodiversity is geographically structured into regions of biotic similarity. Delineating these regions has been mostly targeted for tetrapods and plants, but those for hyperdiverse groups su...
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Open AccessThe impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide
While the regional distribution of non-native species is increasingly well documented for some taxa, global analyses of non-native species in local assemblages are still missing. Here, we use a worldwide colle...
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Open AccessSpecies richness of bat flies and their associations with host bats in a subtropical East Asian region
Understanding the interactions between bat flies and host bats offer us fundamental insights into the coevolutionary and ecological processes in host-parasite relationships. Here, we investigated the identitie...
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Ant communities in disturbed subtropical landscapes: is climate more important than stochastic processes?
Functional trait-based approaches have provided advances in the understanding of community assembly rules. Broad generalisations remain, however, limited due to the idiosyncratic nature of taxa and ecosystems,...
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Open AccessMangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity
The world’s fast disappearing mangrove forests have low plant diversity and are often assumed to also have a species-poor insect fauna. We here compare the tropical arthropod fauna across a freshwater swamp an...
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Alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: the first database of records
The synthesis of comprehensive databases on the identity and distributions of alien organisms is a critical step to develo** informed invasion management plans and identifying areas that are data-deficient. ...
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Subterranean Ants
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Open AccessMolecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological reassessments of thief ants identify a new potential case of biological invasions
Species delimitation offered by DNA-based approaches can provide important insights into the natural history and diversity of species, but the cogency of such processes is limited without multigene phylogenies...
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Ecological and socio-economic impacts of the red import fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), on urban agricultural ecosystems
The agricultural impacts of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren 1972, have been well studied in North America, but have received less emphasis in Asia where the species was first detected in the e...
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Subterranean Ants
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The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems
The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth’s biodiversity: their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including almost all shallow-water coral...
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Open AccessMacroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants
The 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...
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Open AccessRadiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant
Invasions are ecologically destructive and can threaten biodiversity. Trophic flexibility has been proposed as a mechanism facilitating invasion, with more flexible species better able to invade. The termite h...
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Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups
Human-mediated transport beyond biogeographic barriers has led to the introduction and establishment of alien species in new regions worldwide. However, we lack a global picture of established alien species ri...
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High diversity in an urban habitat: are some animal assemblages resilient to long-term anthropogenic change?
Urbanization is thought to lead to the loss of biodiversity both because of habitat disturbance and the increased abundance of invasive species. However, most studies of biodiversity in cities are conducted on...
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Disruption of ant-seed dispersal mutualisms by the invasive Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis)
By disrupting the structure of native ant assemblages, invasive ants can have effects across trophic levels. Most studies to date, however, have focused on the impacts just two species (Linepithema humile and Sol...
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Tandem carrying, a new foraging strategy in ants: description, function, and adaptive significance relative to other described foraging strategies
An important aspect of social insect biology lies in the expression of collective foraging strategies developed to exploit food. In ants, four main types of foraging strategies are typically recognized based o...
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Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants
We collected ants from six urban and one forest land-use types in Raleigh, NC to examine the effects of urbanization on species richness and assemblage composition. Since urban areas are warmer (i.e., heat isl...
