LEADER 04512nam 2201117z- 450 001 9910566471503321 005 20220506 035 $a(CKB)5680000000037665 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/80969 035 $a(oapen)doab80969 035 $a(EXLCZ)995680000000037665 100 $a20202205d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDiversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants 210 $aBasel$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2022 215 $a1 online resource (370 p.) 311 08$a3-0365-2786-9 311 08$a3-0365-2787-7 330 $aAnts 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. 606 $aResearch & information: general$2bicssc 610 $aancestral state reconstruction 610 $aant 610 $aant diversity 610 $aantbird 610 $aants 610 $aarmy ant 610 $abait 610 $abehavioral interactions 610 $abiodiversity 610 $abiogeography 610 $abiological indicator 610 $abiological invasions 610 $aburrow commensal 610 $acentre of origin 610 $aclimate change 610 $aclimatic gradients 610 $aco-occurrence 610 $acoexistence 610 $acommensalism 610 $acommunity structure 610 $acompetitive exclusion 610 $aconservation 610 $acryptic species 610 $adeforestation 610 $adispersal routes 610 $adistribution ranges 610 $adiversity 610 $aDolichoderinae 610 $adominance 610 $aendemic species 610 $aendosymbiont 610 $afood specialisation 610 $aFormicidae 610 $agopher tortoise 610 $ahabitat fragmentation 610 $ahypogaeic 610 $ainteractions 610 $ainvasion ecology 610 $ainvasive species 610 $amimicry 610 $amorphospecies 610 $amyrmecophiles 610 $an/a 610 $aphylogeny 610 $aphysiology 610 $apitfall 610 $ared imported fire ant 610 $arefugium areas 610 $asampling methods 610 $ascale 610 $asoil arthropods 610 $aspecies checklist 610 $aspecies delimitation 610 $aspecies distribution models 610 $aspecies interactions 610 $aspecies occurrence 610 $aspecies richness 610 $astratification 610 $asympatric association 610 $atemperature 610 $atropics 610 $aturnover 610 $aurban ecology 610 $avertical transmission 610 $awet tropics 615 7$aResearch & information: general 700 $aAndersen$b Alan N$4edt$01295526 702 $aAndersen$b Alan N$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910566471503321 996 $aDiversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants$93023577 997 $aUNINA