TY - BOOK ID - 145636015 TI - Diversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants PY - 2022 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - ant diversity KW - cryptic species KW - morphospecies KW - species delimitation KW - sympatric association KW - endosymbiont KW - ant KW - vertical transmission KW - biogeography KW - ancestral state reconstruction KW - phylogeny KW - ants KW - community structure KW - physiology KW - interactions KW - temperature KW - behavioral interactions KW - coexistence KW - co-occurrence KW - competitive exclusion KW - dominance KW - Formicidae KW - scale KW - Dolichoderinae KW - species distribution models KW - climatic gradients KW - wet tropics KW - climate change KW - invasion ecology KW - invasive species KW - red imported fire ant KW - commensalism KW - gopher tortoise KW - diversity KW - conservation KW - burrow commensal KW - soil arthropods KW - pitfall KW - bait KW - turnover KW - food specialisation KW - stratification KW - sampling methods KW - hypogaeic KW - species richness KW - species occurrence KW - endemic species KW - distribution ranges KW - dispersal routes KW - centre of origin KW - refugium areas KW - antbird KW - army ant KW - biodiversity KW - biological indicator KW - deforestation KW - habitat fragmentation KW - myrmecophiles KW - mimicry KW - species interactions KW - tropics KW - biological invasions KW - species checklist KW - urban ecology KW - ant diversity KW - cryptic species KW - morphospecies KW - species delimitation KW - sympatric association KW - endosymbiont KW - ant KW - vertical transmission KW - biogeography KW - ancestral state reconstruction KW - phylogeny KW - ants KW - community structure KW - physiology KW - interactions KW - temperature KW - behavioral interactions KW - coexistence KW - co-occurrence KW - competitive exclusion KW - dominance KW - Formicidae KW - scale KW - Dolichoderinae KW - species distribution models KW - climatic gradients KW - wet tropics KW - climate change KW - invasion ecology KW - invasive species KW - red imported fire ant KW - commensalism KW - gopher tortoise KW - diversity KW - conservation KW - burrow commensal KW - soil arthropods KW - pitfall KW - bait KW - turnover KW - food specialisation KW - stratification KW - sampling methods KW - hypogaeic KW - species richness KW - species occurrence KW - endemic species KW - distribution ranges KW - dispersal routes KW - centre of origin KW - refugium areas KW - antbird KW - army ant KW - biodiversity KW - biological indicator KW - deforestation KW - habitat fragmentation KW - myrmecophiles KW - mimicry KW - species interactions KW - tropics KW - biological invasions KW - species checklist KW - urban ecology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145636015 AB - 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 defenders against herbivores, as seed dispersers, and as seed predators. One downside to the ecological importance of ants is that they feature on the list of the world’s worst invasive species. Ants have also been important for science as model organisms for studies of diversity, biogeography, and community ecology. Despite such importance, ants remain remarkably understudied. A large proportion of species are undescribed, the biogeographic histories of most taxa remain poorly known, and we have a limited understanding of spatial patterns of diversity and composition, along with the processes driving them. The papers in this Special Issue collectively address many of the most pressing questions relating to ant diversity. What is the level of ant diversity? What is the origin of this diversity, and how is it distributed at different spatial scales? What are the roles of niche partitioning and competition as regulators of local diversity? How do ants affect the ecosystems within which they occur? The answers to these questions provide valuable insights not just for ants, but for biodiversity more generally. ER -