Ants are important for the maintenance and functioning of many ecosystems and provide a
variety of ecosystem services and disservices. This review summarizes information on …

Identification of priority areas for conservation is crucial for the maintenance and protection
of biodiversity, particularly in tropical forests where biodiversity continues to be lost at …

The ability of individual animals to create functional structures by joining together is rare and
confined to the social insects. Army ants (Eciton) form collective assemblages out of their …

Models that predict organismal and population responses to climate change may be
improved by considering ecological factors that affect species thermal tolerance. Species …

The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000
described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …

The distribution of food resources in space and time is likely to be an important factor
governing the type of foraging strategy used by ants. However, no previous systematic …

Rates of ecosystem nitrogen (N) cycling may be mediated by the presence of
ectomycorrhizal fungi, which compete directly with free‐living microbes for N. In the …

Army ants are among the top arthropod predators and considered keystone species in
tropical ecosystems. During daily mass raids with many thousand workers, army ants hunt …

This book is a bridge between ecological paradigms–organismal/community approaches to
food web dynamics and ecosystem-level approaches to production. The unification of …

A major challenge of ecological research is to assess the functional consequences of
species richness loss over time and space in global biodiversity hotspots, where extinctions …