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 …

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 …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

Ants are ecosystem engineers, greatly affecting physical, chemical, and biological properties
of the soil. The effects on physical soil properties are connected with the building of corridors …

Ants are recognized as one of the major sources of soil disturbance world‐wide. However,
this view is largely based on isolated studies and qualitative reviews. Here, for the first time …

Global environmental change (including climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in
hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources) is …

With few exceptions, insects are perceived in industrialized countries as undesirable pests.
In reality, relatively few insects interfere with us or our resources. Most have benign or …

In temperate ecosystems, earthworms and ants are the most important organisms for
bioturbation. Little is known about how these groups contribute to bioturbation in different …

Within a local assemblage, ecosystem engineers can have major impacts on population
dynamics, community composition and ecosystem functions by transforming or creating new …

We monitored three different‐sized wood ant (Formica aquilonia Yarrow) mounds over a 3‐
year period in Finnish boreal forests dominated by Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.), to …