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Title Ant ecology / edited by Lori Lach, Catherine L. Parr, and Kirsti L. Abbott
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Oxford biology
Oxford biology.
Contents Foreword / Edward O. Wilson -- Taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution / Philip S. Ward. Applications of taxonomy : why should we name ants? / Philip S. Ward. How to identify ants / Brian L. Fisher -- Biogeography / Brian L. Fisher. The remarkable rediscovery of the dinosaur ant, Nothomyrmecia macrops / Robert W. Taylor -- Geographic gradients / Robert R. Dunn [and others]. Field techniques for sampling ants / Brandon Bestelmeyer and Leticia Rios Casanova. The emergence and utility of online global ant databases / Nathan J. Sanders -- Ant conservation : current status and a call to action / Leeanne E. Alonso. Ants in museums / Ted R. Schultz -- Competition and the role of dominant ants / Catherine L. Parr and Heloise Gibb. Defining dominance / Catherine L. Parr and Heloise Gibb. Co-occurrence analyses : what are they and how do they work? / Heloise Gibb and Catherine L. Parr -- Ants as mutualists / Joshua Ness, Kailen Mooney, and Lori Lach. 'Berry' ants : an eye-popping symbiosis from the rainforest canopy / Stephen P. Yanoviak -- Food and shelter : how resources influence ant ecology / Nico Blüthgen and Heike Feldhaar. Stable isotopes in the study of ant diets / Kailen Mooney and Chadwick V. Tillberg. Ants as biological-control agents in the horticultural industry / Renkang Peng and Keith Christian -- Ant diversity and function in disturbed and changing habitats / Stacy M. Philpott [and others]. Using ants as indicators of ecosystem change / Alan N. Andersen. Functional groups in ant community ecology / Alan N. Andersen -- Colonial reproduction and life histories / Christian Peeters and Mathieu Molet. Antimicrobial defences in ants : pure and applied science / Andrew J. Beattie -- Colony structure / Florian M. Steiner, Ross H. Crozier, and Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner. Ants in the intertidal zone : colony and behavioural adaptations for survival / Simon Robson -- Nestmate recognition / Patrizia d'Ettorre and Alain Lenoir. Recognition between different species : natural and artificial mixed colonies of ants / Christine Errard -- Foraging and defence strategies / Anna Dornhaus and Scott Powell. Trap-jaw ants / Andrew V. Suarez and Joseph C. Spagna. The directed aerial descent of arboreal ants / Stephen P. Yanoviak -- Biogeographic and taxonomic patterns of introduced ants / Andrew V. Suarez, Terrence P. McGlynn and Neil D. Tsutsui. Preventing the international spread of invasive ants through implementation of offshore biosecurity risk management policy / Simon O'Connor and Grant P. Weston -- Invasion processes and causes of success / Paul D. Krushelnycky, David A. Holway, and Edward G. LeBrun. The ecological consequences of cooperative behaviour among workers from different nests / Edward G. LeBrun -- Consequences of ant invasions / Lori Lach and Linda M. Hooper-Bùi. Invasional meltdown : do invasive ants facilitate secondary invasions? / Dennis J. O'Dowd and Peter T. Green -- Invasive ant management / Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Kirsti L. Abbott, and Peter Davis. Active adaptive management for invasive ant management / Benjamin D. Hoffmann and Kirsti L. Abbott -- Synthesis and perspectives
Summary Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is estimated that perhaps as many still await classification. Ant Ecology explores key ecological issues and new developments in myrmecology across a range of scales. The book begins with a global perspective on species diversity in time and space and explores interactions at the community level before describing the population ecology of these social insects. The final section covers the recent ecological phenome
Analysis formicidae
dierecologie
animal ecology
biogeografie
biogeography
invasies
invasions
Lepidoptera
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-383) and index
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Subject Ants -- Ecology.
Ants.
Ants
NATURE -- Animals -- Insects & Spiders.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Entomology.
Ants
Ants -- Ecology
Ameisen
Demökologie
Ökologie
Form Electronic book
Author Lach, Lori.
Parr, Catherine L.
Abbott, Kirsti L.
ISBN 9780191574207
0191574201
9780191720192
0191720194