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Volp, Trevor M., and Lori Lach. "An Epiphytic Ant-Plant Mutualism Structures Arboreal Ant Communities." Environmental Entomology 48, no. 5 (July 15, 2019): 1056–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvz083.

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Abstract Arboreal ant communities are primarily structured by interactions among ant species, food availability, and physical structures within the environment. Epiphytes are a common feature of tropical forests that can provide ants with both food and nesting space. To date, little work has examined what role epiphytic ant-plants play in structuring arboreal ant communities. We surveyed ant species inhabiting the Australian epiphytic ant-plant Myrmecodia beccarii Hook.f. (Gentianales: Rubiaceae) and how arboreal ant communities are structured in relation to M. beccarii presence on trees. Myrmecodia beccarii was inhabited by the ant Philidris cordata Smith, F. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on the majority of Melaleuca viridiflora Sol. Ex Gaertn. (Myrtales: Myrtaceae) trees with ant-occupied ant-plants at our two sites. Dominant arboreal ant species at both study sites exhibited discrete, nonoverlapping distributions, and C-score analysis detected an ant mosaic at one site. The distribution of P. cordata was limited by the distribution of ant-plants for both sites. Philidris cordata dominance on trees was also determined by the presence of M. beccarii occupied by P. cordata at both sites. We suggest that by providing P. cordata with nesting space M. beccarii plays a role in structuring these arboreal ant communities.

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Diamond, Sarah E., Lauren M. Nichols, Shannon L. Pelini, Clint A. Penick, Grace W. Barber, Sara Helms Cahan, Robert R. Dunn, Aaron M. Ellison, Nathan J. Sanders, and Nicholas J. Gotelli. "Climatic warming destabilizes forest ant communities." Science Advances 2, no. 10 (October 2016): e1600842. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600842.

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How will ecological communities change in response to climate warming? Direct effects of temperature and indirect cascading effects of species interactions are already altering the structure of local communities, but the dynamics of community change are still poorly understood. We explore the cumulative effects of warming on the dynamics and turnover of forest ant communities that were warmed as part of a 5-year climate manipulation experiment at two sites in eastern North America. At the community level, warming consistently increased occupancy of nests and decreased extinction and nest abandonment. This consistency was largely driven by strong responses of a subset of thermophilic species at each site. As colonies of thermophilic species persisted in nests for longer periods of time under warmer temperatures, turnover was diminished, and species interactions were likely altered. We found that dynamical (Lyapunov) community stability decreased with warming both within and between sites. These results refute null expectations of simple temperature-driven increases in the activity and movement of thermophilic ectotherms. The reduction in stability under warming contrasts with the findings of previous studies that suggest resilience of species interactions to experimental and natural warming. In the face of warmer, no-analog climates, communities of the future may become increasingly fragile and unstable.

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Grimbacher, Peter S., and Lesley Hughes. "Response of ant communities and ant-seed interactions to bush regeneration." Ecological Management and Restoration 3, no. 3 (December 2002): 188–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1442-8903.2002.00112.x.

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Dejean, Alain, Régis Céréghino, Maurice Leponce, Vivien Rossi, Olivier Roux, Arthur Compin, Jacques H. C. Delabie, and Bruno Corbara. "The fire ant Solenopsis saevissima and habitat disturbance alter ant communities." Biological Conservation 187 (July 2015): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.04.012.

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Sanders, Nathan J., Gregory M. Crutsinger, Robert R. Dunn, Jonathan D. Majer, and Jacques H. C. Delabie. "An Ant Mosaic Revisited: Dominant Ant Species Disassemble Arboreal Ant Communities but Co-Occur Randomly." Biotropica 39, no. 3 (May 2007): 422–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00263.x.

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Dymova, A. A., M. M. Umarov, N. V. Kostina, M. V. Golichenkov, and M. V. Gorlenko. "Functional diversity of ant-associated bacterial communities." Biology Bulletin 43, no. 5 (September 2016): 390–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1062359016050022.

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NOVGORODOVA, Tatiana A. "Ant-aphid interactions in multispecies ant communities: Some ecological and ethological aspects." European Journal of Entomology 102, no. 3 (August 15, 2005): 495–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2005.071.

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Chanson, Anaïs, Corrie S. Moreau, and Christophe Duplais. "Impact of Nesting Mode, Diet, and Taxonomy in Structuring the Associated Microbial Communities of Amazonian Ants." Diversity 15, no. 2 (January 17, 2023): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15020126.

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Studies of ant biodiversity are important to understand their group better, as well as to extend our knowledge on the evolution of their associated organisms. Host-associated microbial communities, and particularly bacterial communities, are shaped by different host factors such as habitat, diet, and phylogeny. Here, we studied the structures of bacterial and microbial eukaryote communities associated with Amazonian ants collected from two habitats: the rainforest and the city. We collected 38 ant species covering a large taxonomic range, and we used 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA amplicon sequencing to study the impact of the host’s ecological and phylogenetic factors on their microbial communities. Our results show that (1) habitat does not structure ant microbial communities, (2) ant diet and nesting mode impact bacterial communities, while only nesting mode structures microbial eukaryote communities, and (3) microbial diversity is not correlated with host phylogeny, although several ant genera have conserved bacterial communities. As we continue to uncover the diversity and function of insect-associated microbes, this work explores how host ecology and evolutionary history shape ant microbial communities.

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Baker, Christopher C. M., Dino J. Martins, Julianne N. Pelaez, Johan P. J. Billen, Anne Pringle, Megan E. Frederickson, and Naomi E. Pierce. "Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant-plant mutualism." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, no. 1850 (March 15, 2017): 20162501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2501.

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Three ant species nest obligately in the swollen-thorn domatia of the African ant-plant Vachellia ( Acacia ) drepanolobium , a model system for the study of ant-defence mutualisms and species coexistence. Here we report on the characteristic fungal communities generated by these ant species in their domatia. First, we describe behavioural differences between the ant species when presented with a cultured fungal isolate in the laboratory. Second, we use DNA metabarcoding to show that each ant species has a distinctive fungal community in its domatia, and that these communities remain characteristic of the ant species over two Kenyan sampling locations separated by 190 km. Third, we find that DNA extracted from female alates of Tetraponera penzigi and Crematogaster nigriceps contained matches for most of the fungal metabarcodes from those ant species' domatia, respectively. Fungal hyphae and other debris are also visible in sections of these alates' infrabuccal pockets. Collectively, our results indicate that domatium fungal communities are associated with the ant species occupying the tree. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first record of such ant-specific fungal community-level differences on the same myrmecophytic host species. These differences may be shaped by ant behaviour in the domatia, and by ants vectoring fungi when they disperse to establish new colonies. The roles of the fungi with respect to the ants and their host plant remain to be determined.

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Giavelli, Giovanni, and Antonio Bodini. "Plant - Ant - Fungus Communities Investigated through Qualitative Modelling." Oikos 57, no. 3 (April 1990): 357. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3565965.

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Lester, Philip J., Kirsti L. Abbott, Megan Sarty, and KC Burns. "Competitive assembly of South Pacific invasive ant communities." BMC Ecology 9, no. 1 (2009): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-9-3.

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Donoso, David A. "Tropical ant communities are in long-term equilibrium." Ecological Indicators 83 (December 2017): 515–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.03.022.

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Lessard, J. P., R. R. Dunn, and N. J. Sanders. "Temperature-mediated coexistence in temperate forest ant communities." Insectes Sociaux 56, no. 2 (March 3, 2009): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-009-0006-4.

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Grevé, Michael E., Jörg Hager, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Peter Schall, Martin M. Gossner, and Heike Feldhaar. "Effect of forest management on temperate ant communities." Ecosphere 9, no. 6 (June 2018): e02303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2303.

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Devenish, Adam J. M., Rosemary J. Newton, Jon R. Bridle, Crisanto Gomez, Jeremy J. Midgley, and Seirian Sumner. "Contrasting responses of native ant communities to invasion by an ant invader, Linepithema humile." Biological Invasions 23, no. 8 (April 3, 2021): 2553–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02522-7.

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AbstractInvasive alien species pose a serious threat to the integrity and function of natural ecosystems. Understanding how these invaders alter natural communities is therefore an important aspect in predicting the likely future outcomes of biological invasions. Many studies have documented the consequences of invasive alien species on native community structure, through the displacement and local extinction of native species. However, sampling methods and intensities are rarely standardised across such studies, meaning that it is not clear whether differences in response among native communities to the same invader species are due to biological differences between the invaded regions, or differences in the methodologies used. Here we use a matched sampling methodology to compare the effects of the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile Mayr) on native ant community assemblages in two distinct biogeographical regions that share similar ecologies: Girona (Spain) and Jonkershoek Nature Reserve (South Africa). We found a strong negative association between L. humile presence and native ant species richness within both geographic regions. However, the effects differed between the two study regions: in Girona, a single native ant species (Plagiolepis pygmaea) persisted in invaded sites; by contrast, substantially more native ant species persisted at invaded sites in Jonkershoek Nature Reserve. In addition, in Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, the abundance of certain native species appeared to increase in the presence of L. humile. This study therefore demonstrates the potential variable effects of an invasive species in contrasting locations within different biogeographical regions. Future work should explore the causes of this differential resistance among communities and expand standardised sampling approaches to more invaded zones to further explore how local biotic or abiotic conditions of a region determine the nature and extent of impact of L. humile invasion on native ant communities.

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Roura-Pascual, Núria, Josep M. Bas, and Cang Hui. "The spread of the Argentine ant: environmental determinants and impacts on native ant communities." Biological Invasions 12, no. 8 (November 21, 2009): 2399–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009-9650-x.

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Naumann, Ken, and Rob J. Higgins. "The European fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as an invasive species: impact on local ant species and other epigaeic arthropods." Canadian Entomologist 147, no. 5 (December 10, 2014): 592–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.69.

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AbstractPitfall trapping revealed that the European fire ant,Myrmica rubra(Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), represents an unusual example of a temperate invasive ant species. In British Columbia, Canada,M. rubrapopulations are associated with a decreased incidence and abundance of other ant species in three different plant communities when compared withM. rubra-free control areas.M. rubrarepresented more than 99.99% of the total ant fauna caught in the infested areas, and the numbers ofM. rubracaptured in the plant communities ranged from over 10 times to over 1300 times the total number of all ants collected in correspondingM. rubra-free areas. Total numbers of some taxa of insects and non-insect arthropods, including those likely to be competitors or prey ofM. rubra, were reduced where the invasive species was present. Biodiversity indexes for the overall suite of captured arthropod species were lower whereM. rubrawas present in all three plant communities but most of this decrease can be attributed to the difference in the ant fauna.

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Lee, Cheol Min, and Tae-Sung Kwon. "Short-term Changes in Ant Communities after Forest Fire." Korean journal of applied entomology 52, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 205–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5656/ksae.2013.05.0.027.

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Blüthgen, Nico, and Konrad Fiedler. "COMPETITION FOR COMPOSITION: LESSONS FROM NECTAR-FEEDING ANT COMMUNITIES." Ecology 85, no. 6 (June 2004): 1479–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/03-0430.

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Blatrix, Rumsaïs, Salah Bouamer, Serge Morand, and Marc-André Selosse. "Ant-plant mutualisms should be viewed as symbiotic communities." Plant Signaling & Behavior 4, no. 6 (June 2009): 554–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/psb.4.6.8733.

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Lessard, Jean-Philippe, James A. Fordyce, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Nathan J. Sanders. "Invasive ants alter the phylogenetic structure of ant communities." Ecology 90, no. 10 (October 2009): 2664–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-0503.1.

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Davis, Rex A., and Kirk S. Zigler. "Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Communities of the Southern Cumberland Plateau." Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105, no. 3 (May 1, 2012): 484–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/an11154.

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Céréghino, Régis, Céline Leroy, Jean-François Carrias, Laurent Pelozuelo, Caroline Ségura, Christopher Bosc, Alain Dejean, and Bruno Corbara. "Ant-plant mutualisms promote functional diversity in phytotelm communities." Functional Ecology 25, no. 5 (May 13, 2011): 954–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01863.x.

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, David J. Eldridge, Kelly Hamonts, and Brajesh K. Singh. "Ant colonies promote the diversity of soil microbial communities." ISME Journal 13, no. 4 (January 3, 2019): 1114–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0335-2.

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Trigos-Peral, Gema, Luca P. Casacci, Piotr ŚlipiŃski, Irena M. GrzeŚ, Dawid MoroŃ, Hanna Babik, and Magdalena Witek. "Ant communities andSolidagoplant invasion: Environmental properties and food sources." Entomological Science 21, no. 3 (February 23, 2018): 270–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ens.12304.

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BLIGHT, OLIVIER, JEROME ORGEAS, FRANCK TORRE, and ERICK PROVOST. "Competitive dominance in the organisation of Mediterranean ant communities." Ecological Entomology 39, no. 5 (July 29, 2014): 595–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12137.

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Cerda, Xim, Javier Retana, and Sebastia Cros. "Thermal Disruption of Transitive Hierarchies in Mediterranean Ant Communities." Journal of Animal Ecology 66, no. 3 (May 1997): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/5982.

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Arena, G., W. R. J. Dean, and S. J. Milton. "Ant Communities in Two Habitats in Succulent Karoo Shrubland." African Entomology 28, no. 1 (June 4, 2020): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.028.0202.

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Arnan, Xavier, Alan N. Andersen, Heloise Gibb, Catherine L. Parr, Nathan J. Sanders, Robert R. Dunn, Elena Angulo, et al. "Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion." Global Change Biology 24, no. 10 (June 21, 2018): 4614–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14331.

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Feener, Jr., Donald H. "Is the assembly of ant communities mediated by parasitoids?" Oikos 90, no. 1 (July 2000): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900108.x.

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Wang, Wendy Y., and William A. Foster. "Ground-foraging ant communities vary with oil palm age." Basic and Applied Ecology 17, no. 1 (February 2016): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2015.08.009.

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Grevé, Michael E., Mickal Houadria, Alan N. Andersen, and Florian Menzel. "Niche differentiation in rainforest ant communities across three continents." Ecology and Evolution 9, no. 15 (July 17, 2019): 8601–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5394.

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Liu, Qiliang, Sancheng Zhu, Meihua Chen, and Wenkai Liu. "Detecting Dynamic Communities in Vehicle Movements Using Ant Colony Optimization." Applied Sciences 12, no. 15 (July 28, 2022): 7608. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12157608.

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Detecting dynamic community structure in vehicle movements is helpful for revealing urban structures and human mobility patterns. Despite the fruitful research outcomes of community detection, the discovery of irregular-shaped and statistically significant dynamic communities in vehicle movements is still challenging. To overcome this challenge, we developed an evolutionary ant colony optimization (EACO) method for detecting dynamic communities in vehicle movements. Firstly, a weighted, spatially embedded graph was constructed at each time snapshot. Then, an ant-colony-optimization-based spatial scan statistic was upgraded to identify statistically significant communities at each snapshot by considering the effects of the communities discovered at the previous snapshot. Finally, different rules defined based on the Jaccard coefficient were used to identify the evolution of the communities. Experimental results on both simulated and real-world vehicle movement datasets showed that EACO performs better than three representative dynamic community detection methods: FacetNet (a framework for analyzing communities and evolutions in dynamic networks), DYNMOGA (dynamic multi-objective genetic algorithm), and RWLA (random-walk-based Leiden algorithm). The dynamic communities identified by EACO may be useful for understanding the dynamic organization of urban structures.

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Kaspari, Michael, Stephen P. Yanoviak, and Robert Dudley. "On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 46 (November 11, 2008): 17848–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0804528105.

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Sodium is an essential nutrient whose deposition in rainfall decreases with distance inland. The herbivores and microbial decomposers that feed on sodium-poor vegetation should be particularly constrained along gradients of decreasing sodium. We studied the use of sucrose and NaCl baits in 17 New World ant communities located 4–2757 km inland. Sodium use was higher in genera and subfamilies characterized as omnivores/herbivores compared with those classified as carnivores and was lower in communities embedded in forest litter than in those embedded in abundant vegetation. Sodium use was increased in ant communities further inland, as was preference for the baits with the highest sodium concentration. Sucrose use, a measure of ant activity, peaked in communities 10–100 km inland. We suggest that the geography of ant activity is shaped by sodium toxicity near the shore and by sodium deficit farther inland. Given the importance of ants in terrestrial ecosystems, changing patterns of rainfall with global change may ramify through inland food webs.

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Hoffmann, Benjamin D., and Alan N. Andersen. "Patterns of European Ant Communities Reveal a Functionally Coherent Holarctic Fauna." Diversity 15, no. 3 (February 27, 2023): 341. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15030341.

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Here we examine the extent to which European patterns of ant diversity and functional composition conform with those documented in North America. Following protocols previously used in North America, ant species distribution and behavioural dominance were quantified at fifteen sites on two environmental gradients, one following elevation (140–1830 m) in France and the other tree cover (0–95%) in Denmark. Pitfall traps were used to assess species distributions, and behaviour at tuna baits was used to inform behavioural dominance. We specifically test three predictions based on North American patterns: (1) Species richness and overall levels of behavioural dominance will decline with increasing thermal stress. (2) Geographic patterns of key taxa in Europe will be consistent with those in North America. (3) Behavioural dominance of European taxa will be consistent with related taxa in North America. We then use our results to classify the European ant fauna into functional groups, as had been done for North American ants. Based on these functional groups, we analyse distributional patterns along our gradients and re-analyse ant community data from published studies to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the structure of European ant communities. Distributional and behavioural predictions of the European ant taxa were consistent with those in North America. Geographical patterns of functional-group composition were very similar to those previously recorded for North America, varying systematically and predictably along the environmental gradients. Our findings indicate that there is a functionally coherent ant fauna throughout the Holarctic.

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Rakotomalala, Anjaharinony A. N. A., Annemarie Wurz, Ingo Grass, Dominic A. Martin, Kristina Osen, Dominik Schwab, Marie Rolande Soazafy, Teja Tscharntke, and Lala H. Raveloson Ravaomanarivo. "Tropical land use drives endemic versus exotic ant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot." Biodiversity and Conservation 30, no. 14 (October 21, 2021): 4417–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02314-4.

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AbstractUnderstanding how land-use change affects biodiversity is a fundamental step to develop effective conservation strategies in human-modified tropical landscapes. Here, we analyzed how land-use change through tropical small-scale agriculture affects endemic, exotic, and non-endemic native ant communities, focusing on vanilla landscapes in north-eastern Madagascar, a global biodiversity hotspot. First, we compared ant species richness and species composition across seven land-use types: old-growth forest, forest fragment, forest-derived vanilla agroforest, fallow-derived vanilla agroforest, woody fallow, herbaceous fallow, and rice paddy. Second, we assessed how environmental factors drive ant species richness in the agricultural matrix to identify management options that promote endemic and non-endemic native while controlling exotic ant species. We found that old-growth forest, forest fragment, and forest-derived vanilla agroforest supported the highest endemic ant species richness. Exotic ant species richness, by contrast, was lowest in old-growth forest but highest in herbaceous fallows, woody fallows, and rice paddy. Rice paddy had the lowest non-endemic native ant species richness. Ant species composition differed among land-use types, highlighting the uniqueness of old-growth forest in harboring endemic ant species which are more sensitive to disturbance. In the agricultural matrix, higher canopy closure and landscape forest cover were associated with an increase of endemic ant species richness but a decrease of exotic ant species richness. We conclude that preserving remnant forest fragments and promoting vanilla agroforests with a greater canopy closure in the agricultural matrix are important management strategies to complement the role of old-growth forests for endemic ant conservation in north-eastern Madagascar.

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Madureira, Marcelo Silva, Tathiana Guerra Sobrinho, and José Henrique Schoereder. "The Influence of Extrafloral Nectaries on Arboreal Ant Species Richness in Tree Communities." Sociobiology 65, no. 2 (July 9, 2018): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v65i2.1939.

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Studies investigating the role of resource availability in the species richness patterns can elucidate ecological processes and contribute to conservation strategies. In this study, we test two hypotheses: i) arboreal ant species richness increases with abundance of extrafloral nectaries-bearing trees; and ii) arboreal ant species richness increases with the diversity of extrafloral nectaries-bearing trees. We used data of ant sampling and tree inventories from 30 plots of Brazilian Cerrado. Arboreal ant species richness was positively influenced by the proportional abundance of extrafloral nectaries-bearing trees, total tree density and total tree diversity. There was no effect of species richness of extrafloral nectaries-bearing trees. Coefficient of determination of proportional abundance of extrafloral nectaries-bearing trees was larger when compared to coefficient obtained using tree density as explanatory variable. These results suggest that variation in arboreal ant species richness is better explained by extrafloral nectaries-bearing tree abundance than total tree density. Generalist foraging behavior of sampled ant species may explain their association with proportional abundance of extrafloral nectariesbearing trees and their non-significant relation with proportional richness of extrafloral nectaries-bearing tree species. Extrafloral nectaries-bearing trees abundance may be a specific estimate of the amount of food resource available in plots. Thus, this is a more specific way to quantify which resources may explain variation of the arboreal ant species richness in tree communities. We hope these results will be helpful to understanding the local variation in ant species richness and as criteria to biodiversity conservation.

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Soares Ribeiro, Vanessa Soares Ribeiro, Lucas Navarro Paolucci, José Henrique Schoereder, and Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar. "Divergence of Ant Communities Over Time in a Fragmented Atlantic Rain Forest Landscape." Sociobiology 69, no. 3 (September 7, 2022): e8099. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v69i3.8099.

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Habitat fragmentation changes biological communities and its spatiotemporal dynamics – which may lead to either biotic homogenization or heterogenization along time and space. Both processes can occur by addition, replacement or loss of species within communities, altering compositional similarity across the landscape. We investigated which of these two processes (biotic homogenization or heterogenization) occurs, and its possible underlying mechanism, over 15 years in an Atlantic Forest landscape using ants as model organisms. We sampled ants in 17 forest fragments across three different years, compared their composition similarity, species richness, and species richness of groups classified according to their habitat preferences. We sampled a total of 132 ant species. Ant communities in fragments diverged over time, suggesting they experienced an idiosyncratic structuring process. This biotic heterogenization occurred through an additive process, as ant species richness increased over time, mainly due to an increase of generalist ant species, and a decrease of forest specialist ant species. These changes occurred despite the higher forest cover in the landscape along years. Since different species can perform different functions in ecosystems, this biotic heterogenization may have implications for ecosystem functioning. Investigating how disturbances structure biological communities over time, especially those performing important ecosystem functions, can shed light to our understanding of possible changes in ecosystem functions and consequently for forest regeneration.

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E. Clay, R., and K. E. Schneider. "The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna of coastal heath in south-west Victoria: effects of dominance by Acacia sophorae and management actions to control it." Pacific Conservation Biology 6, no. 2 (2000): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc000144.

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There has been increasing emphasis on the use of ant communities as indicators of recovery during and after minesite rehabilitation. This study also focuses on ants as indicators of recovery but, in this case, assesses the success of active management of coastal heath vegetation. Remnants of coastal heath near Portland in south-west Victoria are very diverse communities of considerable conservation significance. However, many remnants are suffering a serious loss of plant diversity as they become dominated by the native Coast Wattle Acacia sophorae. In an attempt to reverse these declines, heath dominated by Coast Wattle is being actively managed to encourage natural regeneration of diverse heaths. Monitoring of ant communities has documented this regeneration of the vegetation and has attempted to assess the effectiveness of two different management methods, burning and cutting. Results of pitfall trapping over two years have shown considerable difference in the ant communities of two different intact heath types (the similarity index was a low 0.34). Also clearly illustrated is the detrimental effect that dominance by Coast Wattle has on ant community diversity. The diversity index of intact heath was 0.93 compared to 0.61 and 0.50 for two sites dominated by Coast Wattle. Trapping has also shown improvement in the ant communities following burning or cutting of Coast Wattle. However, our results suggest that complete recovery will require a considerable time and that it is too early to determine the relative effectiveness of different management techniques.

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Garcia Cárdenas, Delly Rocio, James Montoya-Lerma, and Inge Armbrecht. "A comparative study of ant diversity under three coverages in a Neotropical coffee landscape." Revista de Biología Tropical 66, no. 4 (August 16, 2018): 1373. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i4.30610.

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The coffee cultivation has displaced natural vegetation and its associated biological diversity. The present study describes the diversity of ground-dwelling ants on eight plantations where coffee is grown in the shade (SHD), eight plantations where coffee is grown under unshaded coffee (SUN) and four patches of forest (FOS) in a coffee-growing region of Colombia. The research was conducted in transects composed of 12 sampling stations, each of which employed active collection, pitfall traps and litter sifting. Nine habitat variables were analyzed to characterize each site, and these values were related to the diversity of ants and functional groups. A total of 92 morphospecies were collected. Myrmicinae was the subfamily with the highest representation. The sample coverage presented a deficit of less than 5 %. The rank abundance curves exhibited differences in the ant assemblages. The ant communities found in the forest exhibited greater diversity and a larger number of exclusive species than the communities found in locations of other land uses; the SHD and SUN communities were characterized by 80.3 % and 62.3 %, respectively, of the diversity found in the forest communities. The functional similarity index as adapted for guilds by Sørensen reveals a high degree of similarity in the structure of their ant communities, but less so in their composition.The shaded coffee plantations have a richer and more equitable ant fauna than the exposed coffee plantations, reinforcing the idea that shade cultivation favors the establishment of ant fauna and, consequently, ecological functionality.

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Soares, Stela de Almeida. "THE ROLE OF COMPETITION IN STRUCTURING ANT COMMUNITIES: A REVIEW." Oecologia Australis 17, no. 2 (June 2013): 271–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2013.1702.08.

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Finch, Elizabeth A., Eric T. Rajoelison, Matthew T. Hamer, Tancredi Caruso, Keith D. Farnsworth, Brian L. Fisher, and Alison Cameron. "The effect of swidden agriculture on ant communities in Madagascar." Biological Conservation 265 (January 2022): 109400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109400.

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Sanders, Nathan J., and Deborah M. Gordon. "RESOURCE-DEPENDENT INTERACTIONS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF DESERT ANT COMMUNITIES." Ecology 84, no. 4 (April 2003): 1024–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1024:riatoo]2.0.co;2.

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Feener, Donald H., Matthew R. Orr, Kirt M. Wackford, Jose M. Longo, Woodruff W. Benson, and Lawrence E. Gilbert. "GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN RESOURCE DOMINANCE–DISCOVERY IN BRAZILIAN ANT COMMUNITIES." Ecology 89, no. 7 (July 2008): 1824–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-0659.1.

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Siemiński, Andrzej, and Marek Kopel. "Solving dynamic TSP by parallel and adaptive ant colony communities." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 37, no. 6 (December 23, 2019): 7607–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jifs-179366.

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Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Jose M. S. Vilhena, William E. Magnusson, and Ana L. K. M. Albernaz. "Long-term effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian ant communities." Journal of Biogeography 33, no. 8 (August 2006): 1348–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01516.x.

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Underwood, Emma C., and Caroline E. Christian. "Consequences of Prescribed Fire and Grazing on Grassland Ant Communities." Environmental Entomology 38, no. 2 (April 1, 2009): 325–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/022.038.0204.

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Chong, C. S., A. A. Hoffmann, and L. J. Thomson. "Commercial Agrochemical Applications in Vineyards Do Not Influence Ant Communities." Environmental Entomology 36, no. 6 (December 1, 2007): 1374–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/36.6.1374.

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Palladini, Jennifer D., Maureen G. Jones, Nathan J. Sanders, and Erik S. Jules. "The recovery of ant communities in regenerating temperate conifer forests." Forest Ecology and Management 242, no. 2-3 (April 2007): 619–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2007.01.074.

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Ellwood, M. D. Farnon, Nico Blüthgen, Tom M. Fayle, William A. Foster, and Florian Menzel. "Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities." Acta Oecologica 75 (August 2016): 24–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2016.06.001.

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