▪ Abstract Aphids and ants are two abundant and highly successful insect groups, which
often live in the same habitat and therefore are likely to interact with one another. Whether …

A growing body of literature points to a large-scale research approach as essential for
understanding population and community ecology. Many of our advances regarding the …

Mutualism is an interaction between individuals of 2 different species of organism in which
both benefit from the association. With a focus on mutualisms between ants and aphids …

Ants play a central role in understanding the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on
communities and ecosystems because of their diversity, abundance, and functional roles in …

Species experience landscapes differently depending on their needs and behaviors, and on
their trophic level. We expect species at high trophic levels in a community to be more …

Detailed characterization of alpine meadow ecosystems using spatial metrics is important to
understand the underlying processes of meadow degradation and to inform its proper …

Small patches of fragmented landscape cannot be resolved using remote-sensing satellite
images and they are too numerous and too irregular to be measured easily and efficiently on …

Habitat fragmentation is considered one of the major threats to invertebrate diversity in semi‐
natural grassland. However, the effects of habitat fragmentation through mowing on the rich …

Habitat fragmentation can affect levels of herbivory in plant populations if plants and
herbivores are differentially affected by fragmentation. Moreover, if herbivores are top–down …

Habitat fragmentation is one of the most important threats to biodiversity. Decreasing patch
size may lead to a reduction in the size of populations and to an increased extinction risk of …