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Brassard F, Pettit MJ, Murphy BP, Andersen AN. Fire influences ant diversity by modifying vegetation structure in an Australian tropical savanna. Ecology 2023; 104:e4143. [PMID: 37471112 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
Abstract
Fire is a dominant ecological force shaping many faunal communities globally. Fire affects fauna either directly, such as by killing individuals, or indirectly, such as by modifying vegetation structure. Vegetation structure itself also modulates fire frequency and intensity. As such, faunal responses to fire need to be seen through the lens of variable fire activity and vegetation structure. Here, we incorporate information on fire activity and vegetation structure to enhance an understanding of the response of ants to long-term (17-year) experimental fire treatments in an extremely fire-prone tropical savanna in northern Australia. Previous analysis revealed limited divergence in ant communities after 5 years of experimental fire treatment. Hence, we first investigated the extent to which ant communities diverged over a subsequent 12 years of treatment. We then assessed the relative contribution of fire treatment, cumulative fire intensity (fire activity), and woody cover to responses of ant species frequency of occurrence, richness, and composition. We found that, even after 17 years, fire treatments explained little variation in any ant response variable. In contrast, woody cover was a strong predictor for all of them, while fire activity was a moderate predictor for abundance and richness. Ant species occurrence and richness increased in open habitats receiving higher levels of fire activity, compared with plots with higher vegetation cover experiencing low (or no) fire activity. Moreover, species composition differed between plots with high and low vegetation cover. Our findings provide experimental support to the principle that the effects of fire on fauna are primarily indirect, via its effect on vegetation structure. Furthermore, our results show that a "uniform" fire regime does not have uniform impacts on the ant fauna, because of variability imposed by interactions between vegetation structure and fire activity. This helps to explain why there is often a weak relationship between pyrodiversity and biodiversity, and it lessens the need for active management of pyrodiversity to maintain biodiversity.
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- François Brassard
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Berrimah, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Carvalho RL, Vieira J, Melo C, Silva AM, Tolentino VCM, Neves K, Vaz de Mello F, Andersen AN, Vasconcelos HL. Interactions between land use, taxonomic group and aspects and levels of diversity in a Brazilian savanna: Implications for the use of bioindicators. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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- Raquel L. Carvalho
- Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Uberlândia Brazil
- Embrapa Amazônia Oriental Belém Brazil
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- Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Uberlândia Brazil
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- Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Uberlândia Brazil
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- Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Uberlândia Brazil
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- Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Uberlândia Brazil
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin Australia
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Zanzarini V, Andersen AN, Fidelis A. Flammability in tropical savannas: Variation among growth forms and seasons in Cerrado. Biotropica 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Vagner Zanzarini
- Instituto de Biociências, Lab of Vegetation Ecology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Rio Claro Brazil
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Brinkin Northwest Territories Australia
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- Instituto de Biociências, Lab of Vegetation Ecology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Rio Claro Brazil
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Andersen AN, Einoder LD, Fisher A, Hill B, Oberprieler SK. Faunal standards for the restoration of terrestrial ecosystems: a framework and its application to a high‐profile case study. Restor Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Alan N. Andersen
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Brinkin NT 0810 Australia
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- Department of Environment and Natural Resources Northern Territory Government Berrimah NT 0828 Australia
- Kakadu National Park, Parks Australia, Jabiru, Northern Territory 0886
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- Department of Environment and Natural Resources Northern Territory Government Berrimah NT 0828 Australia
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- Department of Environment and Natural Resources Northern Territory Government Berrimah NT 0828 Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Brinkin NT 0810 Australia
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Nimmo DG, Andersen AN, Archibald S, Boer MM, Brotons L, Parr CL, Tingley MW. Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Dale G. Nimmo
- Gulbali Institute, School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences Charles Sturt University Albury New South Wales Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Ellengown Drive Brinkin Northern Territory Australia
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- Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Richmond New South Wales Australia
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- CTFC Solsona Spain
- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
- CSIC Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
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- School of Environmental Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool UK
- Department of Zoology & Entomology University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Wits South Africa
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California – Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA
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- Tina Parkhurst
- Harry Butler Institute Murdoch University Perth Western Australia 6150 Australia
- Land and Water CSIRO Land and Water Perth Western Australia 6913 Australia
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- Harry Butler Institute Murdoch University Perth Western Australia 6150 Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin Northwest Territories 0811 Australia
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- Land and Water CSIRO Land and Water Perth Western Australia 6913 Australia
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia Perth Western Australia 6009 Australia
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Arnan X, Silva CHF, Reis DQA, Oliveira FMP, Câmara T, Ribeiro EMS, Andersen AN, Leal IR. Individual and interactive effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition and diversity of extrafloral nectary-bearing plants in Brazilian Caatinga. Oecologia 2021; 198:267-277. [PMID: 34767071 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05074-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Chronic anthropogenic disturbance (CAD) and climate change represent two of the major threats to biodiversity globally, but their combined effects are not well understood. Here we investigate the individual and interactive effects of increasing CAD and decreasing rainfall on the composition and taxonomic (TD), functional (FD) and phylogenetic diversity (PD) of plants possessing extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) in semi-arid Brazilian Caatinga. EFNs attract ants that protect plants against insect herbivore attack and are extremely prevalent in the Caatinga flora. EFN-bearing plants were censused along gradients of disturbance and rainfall in Catimbau National Park in north-eastern Brazil. We recorded a total of 2243 individuals belonging to 21 species. Taxonomic and functional composition varied along the rainfall gradient, but not along the disturbance gradient. There was a significant interaction between increasing disturbance and decreasing rainfall, with CAD leading to decreased TD, FD and PD in the most arid areas, and to increased TD, FD and PD in the wettest areas. We found a strong phylogenetic signal in the EFN traits we analysed, which explains the strong matching between patterns of FD and PD along the environmental gradients. The interactive effects of disturbance and rainfall revealed by our study indicate that the decreased rainfall forecast for Caatinga under climate change will increase the sensitivity of EFN-bearing plants to anthropogenic disturbance. This has important implications for the availability of a key food resource, which would likely have cascading effects on higher trophic levels.
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- Xavier Arnan
- Universidade de Pernambuco - Campus Garanhuns, Rua Capitão Pedro Rodrigues 105, Garanhuns, PE, 55290-000, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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- Universidade de Pernambuco - Campus Garanhuns, Rua Capitão Pedro Rodrigues 105, Garanhuns, PE, 55290-000, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil.,Colegiado de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Pernambuco-Campus Petrolina, BR 203, km 2, s/n, Vila Eduardo, Petrolina, PE, 56328-903, Brazil
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- Charles Darwin University, Ellengowan Dr, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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Silveira FAO, Ordóñez‐Parra CA, Moura LC, Schmidt IB, Andersen AN, Bond W, Buisson E, Durigan G, Fidelis A, Oliveira RS, Parr C, Rowland L, Veldman JW, Pennington RT. Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration. J Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Fernando A. O. Silveira
- Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution Federal University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution Federal University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte Brazil
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- Institute Society, Population and Nature Brasília Brazil
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- Research Institute for the Environment and LivelihoodsCharles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa
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- Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'EcologieCNRSIRDAix Marseille UniversitéAvignon UniversitéIUT d'Avignon Avignon France
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- Lab of Vegetation Ecology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Rio Claro Brazil
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- School of Environmental Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool UK
- Department of Zoology & Entomology University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa
- School of Animal Plant & Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Wits South Africa
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- Department of Geography College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter Exeter UK
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology Texas A&M University College Station TX USA
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- School of Environmental Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool UK
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
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Leahy L, Scheffers BR, Williams SE, Andersen AN. Arboreality drives heat tolerance while elevation drives cold tolerance in tropical rainforest ants. Ecology 2021; 103:e03549. [PMID: 34618920 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Determining how species thermal limits correlate with climate is important for understanding biogeographic patterns and assessing vulnerability to climate change. Such analyses need to consider thermal gradients at multiple spatial scales. Here we relate thermal traits of rainforest ants to microclimate conditions from ground to canopy (microgeographic scale) along an elevation gradient (mesogeographic scale) and calculate warming tolerance to assess climate change vulnerability in the Australian Wet Tropics Bioregion. We test the thermal adaptation and thermal niche asymmetry hypotheses to explain interspecific patterns of thermal tolerance at these two spatial scales. We tested cold tolerance (CTmin ), heat tolerance (CTmax ), and calculated thermal tolerance range (CTrange ), using ramping assays for 74 colonies of 40 ant species collected from terrestrial and arboreal habitats at lowland and upland elevation sites and recorded microclimatic conditions for one year. Within sites, arboreal ants were exposed to hotter microclimates and on average had a 4.2°C (95% CI: 2.7-5.6°C) higher CTmax and 5.3°C (95% CI: 3.5-7°C) broader CTrange than ground-dwelling ants. This pattern was consistent across the elevation gradient, whether it be the hotter lowlands or the cooler uplands. Across elevation, upland ants could tolerate significantly colder temperatures than lowland ants, whereas the change in CTmax was less pronounced, and CTrange did not change over elevation. Differential exposure to microclimates, due to localized niche preferences, drives divergence in CTmax , while environmental temperatures along the elevation gradient drive divergence in CTmin . Our results suggest that both processes of thermal adaptation and thermal niche asymmetry are at play, depending on the spatial scale of observation, and we discuss potential mechanisms underlying these patterns. Despite the broad thermal tolerance range of arboreal rainforest ants, lowland arboreal ants had the lowest warming tolerance and may be most vulnerable to climate change.
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- Lily Leahy
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
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Pettit MJ, Andersen AN. A new species of Epopostruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from monsoonal Australia. Zootaxa 2021; 5048:141-144. [PMID: 34810810 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.1.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Epopostruma is an uncommon genus of myrmicine ants endemic to relatively mesic regions of southern and eastern Australia. Here we describe a new species recently recorded from the 'Top End of Australias Northern Territory, E. topendi sp. n. from Melville Island and Nitmiluk National Park. The new species is known from one specimen from each of two sites in the Australian monsoonal tropics, the only records of the genus from this region. This addition brings the number of described species of Epopostruma to twenty.
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- Magen J Pettit
- CSIRO Health Biosecurity, PMB 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. .
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. .
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Mata L, Andersen AN, Morán-Ordóñez A, Hahs AK, Backstrom A, Ives CD, Bickel D, Duncan D, Palma E, Thomas F, Cranney K, Walker K, Shears I, Semeraro L, Malipatil M, Moir ML, Plein M, Porch N, Vesk PA, Smith TR, Lynch Y. Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces. Ecol Appl 2021; 31:e02309. [PMID: 33605502 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The contribution of urban greenspaces to support biodiversity and provide benefits for people is increasingly recognized. However, ongoing management practices favor vegetation oversimplification, often limiting greenspaces to lawns and tree canopy rather than multi-layered vegetation that includes under- and midstorey, and the use of nonnative species. These practices hinder the potential of greenspaces to sustain indigenous biodiversity, particularly for taxa like insects that rely on plants for food and habitat. Yet, little is known about which plant species may maximize positive outcomes for taxonomically and functionally diverse insect communities in greenspaces. Additionally, while cities are expected to experience high rates of introductions, quantitative assessments of the relative occupancy of indigenous vs. introduced insect species in greenspace are rare, hindering understanding of how management may promote indigenous biodiversity while limiting the establishment of introduced insects. Using a hierarchically replicated study design across 15 public parks, we recorded occurrence data from 552 insect species on 133 plant species, differing in planting design element (lawn, midstorey, and tree canopy), midstorey growth form (forbs, lilioids, graminoids, and shrubs) and origin (nonnative, native, and indigenous), to assess (1) the relative contributions of indigenous and introduced insect species and (2) which plant species sustained the highest number of indigenous insects. We found that the insect community was overwhelmingly composed of indigenous rather than introduced species. Our findings further highlight the core role of multi-layered vegetation in sustaining high insect biodiversity in urban areas, with indigenous midstorey and canopy representing key elements to maintain rich and functionally diverse indigenous insect communities. Intriguingly, graminoids supported the highest indigenous insect richness across all studied growth forms by plant origin groups. Our work highlights the opportunity presented by indigenous understory and midstorey plants, particularly indigenous graminoids, in our study area to promote indigenous insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces. Our study provides a blueprint and stimulus for architects, engineers, developers, designers, and planners to incorporate into their practice plant species palettes that foster a larger presence of indigenous over regionally native or nonnative plant species, while incorporating a broader mixture of midstorey growth forms.
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- Luis Mata
- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
- Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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- Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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- The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Brisbane, Queensland, 4102, Australia
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- Science Department, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, 3053, Australia
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- City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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- Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria Research, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria Research, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
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- Administration de la Nature et des Forêts, Diekirch, 9233, Luxembourg
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, 3216, Australia
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
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- City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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Leahy L, Scheffers BR, Andersen AN, Hirsch BT, Williams SE. Vertical niche and elevation range size in tropical ants: Implications for climate resilience. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Lily Leahy
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science College of Science & Engineering James Cook University Townsville Qld Australia
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina NT Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science College of Science & Engineering James Cook University Townsville Qld Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science College of Science & Engineering James Cook University Townsville Qld Australia
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Andersen AN. Faunal responses to fire in Australian tropical savannas: Insights from field experiments and their lessons for conservation management. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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- Alan N. Andersen
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia
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Oberprieler SK, Andersen AN. The importance of sampling intensity when assessing ecosystem restoration: ants as bioindicators in northern Australia. Restor Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Stefanie K. Oberprieler
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT 0909 Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT 0909 Australia
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Carvalho RL, Weir T, Vasconcelos HL, Andersen AN. Dung beetles of an Australian tropical savanna: Species composition, food preferences and responses to experimental fire regimes. AUSTRAL ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Raquel L. Carvalho
- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Uberlândia MG 38405-302 Brazil
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- Australian National Insect Collection; CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure; Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Uberlândia MG 38405-302 Brazil
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Corey B, Andersen AN, Legge S, Woinarski JCZ, Radford IJ, Perry JJ. Better biodiversity accounting is needed to prevent bioperversity and maximize co‐benefits from savanna burning. Conserv Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Ben Corey
- Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Kununurra Western Australia Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and LivelihoodsCharles Darwin University Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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- School of Conservation and Biodiversity ScienceUniversity of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland Australia
- Fenner School of Environment and SocietyThe Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and LivelihoodsCharles Darwin University Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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- Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Kununurra Western Australia Australia
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- Department of Land and WaterCSIRO Townsville Queensland Australia
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Grevé ME, Houadria M, Andersen AN, Menzel F. Niche differentiation in rainforest ant communities across three continents. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:8601-8615. [PMID: 31410265 PMCID: PMC6686352 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A central prediction of niche theory is that biotic communities are structured by niche differentiation arising from competition. To date, there have been numerous studies of niche differentiation in local ant communities, but little attention has been given to the macroecology of niche differentiation, including the extent to which particular biomes show distinctive patterns of niche structure across their global ranges. We investigated patterns of niche differentiation and competition in ant communities in tropical rainforests, using different baits reflecting the natural food spectrum. We examined the extent of temporal and dietary niche differentiation and spatial segregation of ant communities at five rainforest sites in the neotropics, paleotropics, and tropical Australia. Despite high niche overlap, we found significant dietary and temporal niche differentiation in every site. However, there was no spatial segregation among foraging ants at the community level, despite strong competition for preferred food resources. Although sucrose, melezitose, and dead insects attracted most ants, some species preferentially foraged on seeds, living insects, or bird feces. Moreover, most sites harbored more diurnal than nocturnal species. Overall niche differentiation was strongest in the least diverse site, possibly due to its lower number of rare species. Both temporal and dietary differentiation thus had strong effects on the ant assemblages, but their relative importance varied markedly among sites. Our analyses show that patterns of niche differentiation in ant communities are highly idiosyncratic even within a biome, such that a mechanistic understanding of the drivers of niche structure in ant communities remains elusive.
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- Michael E. Grevé
- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (IOME), Faculty of BiologyUniversity of MainzMainzGermany
- Animal Population Ecology, Animal Ecology I, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER)University of BayreuthBayreuthGermany
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- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (IOME), Faculty of BiologyUniversity of MainzMainzGermany
- Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Science, Institute of EntomologyUniversity of South BohemiaCeske BudejoviceCzech Republic
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- Tropical Ecosystems Research CentreCSIRO Ecosystem SciencesDarwinNorthern TerritoryAustralia
- Research Institute for the Environment and LivelihoodsCharles Darwin UniversityDarwinNorthern TerritoryAustralia
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- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (IOME), Faculty of BiologyUniversity of MainzMainzGermany
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Oberprieler SK, Andersen AN, Gillespie GR, Einoder LD. Vertebrates are poor umbrellas for invertebrates: cross‐taxon congruence in an Australian tropical savanna. Ecosphere 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Stefanie K. Oberprieler
- CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre P.M.B. 44 Winnellie Darwin Northern Territory 0822 Australia
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin Northern Territory 0909 Australia
- Research School of Biology Australian National University Acton Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2600 Australia
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- CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre P.M.B. 44 Winnellie Darwin Northern Territory 0822 Australia
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin Northern Territory 0909 Australia
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- Flora and Fauna Division Department of Environment and Natural Resources P.O. Box 496 Palmerston Northern Territory 0831 Australia
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- Flora and Fauna Division Department of Environment and Natural Resources P.O. Box 496 Palmerston Northern Territory 0831 Australia
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Nowrouzi S, Bush A, Harwood T, Staunton KM, Robson SKA, Andersen AN. Incorporating habitat suitability into community projections: Ant responses to climate change in the Australian Wet Tropics. DIVERS DISTRIB 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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- Somayeh Nowrouzi
- Zoology and Ecology, College of Science and Engineering James Cook University Townsville Queensland Australia
- CSIRO Land and Water Darwin Northern Territory Australia
- CSIRO Land and Water Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
- Environment and Climate Change Canada University of New Brunswick Fredericton New Brunswick Canada
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- CSIRO Land and Water Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences James Cook University Cairns Queensland Australia
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine James Cook University Cairns Queensland Australia
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- School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences Central Queensland University Townsville Queensland Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water Darwin Northern Territory Australia
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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Ribeiro LF, Solar RRC, Sobrinho TG, Muscardi DC, Schoereder JH, Andersen AN. Different trophic groups of arboreal ants show differential responses to resource supplementation in a neotropical savanna. Oecologia 2019; 190:433-443. [PMID: 31069514 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04414-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Resource-ratio theory predicts that consumers should achieve optimal ratios of complementary nutrients. Accordingly, different trophic groups are expected to vary in their N-limitation depending on the extent to which they feed primarily on carbohydrate (CHO) or protein. Among arboreal ants, N-limitation ranges from high (for trophobiont tenders), intermediate (leaf foragers) and low (predators). We report results from a manipulative field experiment in a Brazilian savanna that tests the differential attractiveness of nitrogen and CHO to arboreal ants, as well as experimentally examines changes in broader ant foraging patterns in response to protein and CHO supplementation. Every tree within 32 20 × 20 m plots were supplemented with either protein, CHO; protein + CHO or a water control (n = 8 in each case) for a 7-day period in each of the wet and dry seasons. As predicted, different trophic groups responded differentially to supplementation treatment according to the extent of their N-limitation. The richness and abundance of the most N-limited group (trophobiont tenders) was highest at protein supplements, whereas less N-limited trophic groups showed highest species richness (leaf foragers) or abundance (predators) at CHO supplements. Protein supplementation markedly increased the general foraging abundance of trophobiont tenders, but decreased the abundance of leaf foragers. We attribute the latter to increased competition from behaviorally dominant trophobiont tenders. Our study provides experimental evidence that nutrient availability is a major factor influencing arboreal ant communities, both directly through the provision of different resources, and indirectly through increased competitive pressure.
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- Laila F Ribeiro
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Avenida P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, MG, CEP 36570-000, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, CEP 31270-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, BR 101 Norte, Km 60, São Mateus, ES, CEP 29932-540, Brazil
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- Departamento de Educação e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, BR 101 Norte, Km 60, São Mateus, ES, CEP 29932-540, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Avenida P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, MG, CEP 36570-000, Brazil
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- Research School for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, 0909, Australia
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Oliveira FMP, Andersen AN, Arnan X, Ribeiro-Neto JD, Arcoverde GB, Leal IR. Effects of increasing aridity and chronic anthropogenic disturbance on seed dispersal by ants in Brazilian Caatinga. J Anim Ecol 2019; 88:870-880. [PMID: 30883729 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Anthropogenic disturbance and climate change are the main drivers of biodiversity loss and ecological services around the globe. There is concern that climate change will exacerbate the impacts of disturbance and thereby promote biotic homogenization, but its consequences for ecological services are unknown. We investigated the individual and interactive effects of increasing chronic anthropogenic disturbance (CAD) and aridity on seed dispersal services provided by ants in Caatinga vegetation of north-eastern Brazil. The study was conducted in Catimbau National Park, Pernambuco, Brazil. Within an area of 214 km2 , we established nineteen 50 × 20 m plots that encompassed gradients of both CAD and aridity. We offered diaspores of six plant species, three myrmecochorous diaspores and three fleshy fruits that are secondarily dispersed by ants. We then quantified the number of interactions, seed removal rate and dispersal distances, and noted the identities of interacting ant species. Finally, we used pitfall trap data to quantify the abundances of ant disperser species in each plot. Our results show that overall composition of ant disperser species varied along the gradients of CAD and aridity, but the composition of high-quality dispersers varied only with aridity. The total number of interactions, rates of removal and mean distance of removal all declined with increasing aridity, but they were not related to CAD. These same patterns were found when considering only high-quality disperser species, driven by the responses of the dominant disperser Dinoponera quadriceps. We found little evidence of interactive effects of CAD and aridity on seed dispersal services by ants. Our study indicates that CAD and aridity act independently on ant-mediated seed dispersal services in Caatinga, such that the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance are unlikely to change under the forecast climate of increased aridity. However, our findings highlight the vulnerability of seed dispersal services provided by ants in Caatinga under an increasingly arid climate due to low functional redundancy in high-quality disperser species. Given the large number of plant species dependent on ants for seed dispersal, this has important implications for future plant recruitment and, consequently, for the composition of Caatinga plant communities.
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- Fernanda M P Oliveira
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Research School of Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
- CSIRO Land & Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya, Spain
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
- Departamento Fitotecnia e Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, PB, Brazil
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- Research School of Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
- CSIRO Land & Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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Guerin GR, Andersen AN, Rossetto M, van Leeuwen S, Byrne M, Sparrow B, Rodrigo M, Lowe AJ. Consistent sorting but contrasting transition zones in plant communities along bioclimatic gradients. Acta Oecologica 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2019.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Sparks KS, Andersen AN, Austin AD. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. INVERTEBR SYST 2019. [DOI: 10.1071/is16080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Monomorium Mayr is a speciose, cosmopolitan genus of myrmicine ants that has had a challenging systematic history, comprising numerous lineages whose relationships are problematic. This study employed an extensive sampling of mostly Australian taxa, along with exemplars of other genera of Solenopsidini, to examine relationships among the continent’s Monomorium fauna. Sequences from elongation factor 1α F2, wingless and cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) were analysed using Bayesian and maximum likelihood methods. The resultant phylogeny resolved Australian Monomorium into two major clades separated by exemplars from other genera; one comprised predominantly species with 11-segmented antennae (corresponding to Monomorium s. str. in a recent study of Myrmicinae) along with three Paleotropical species. The second clade included Australian species with 12-segmented antennae, two New Zealand species and two from New Caledonia. Two Australian cryptobiotic species were resolved as sister to Clade 2. COI analysis indicated that some species (M. fieldi Forel, M. leave Mayr and M. leae Forel) possibly represent cryptic species complexes. The New Zealand M. antipodum Forel was recovered as a valid species, and is closely related to an eastern Australian population. We resurrect the genus Chelaner Emery for species in the second clade (with 12-segmented antennae) and outline morphological characters to separate Chelaner from Monomorium s. str. Fifty-three species of Chelaner are treated as either stat. nov. or stat. rev.
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Caddy‐Retalic S, Hoffmann BD, Guerin GR, Andersen AN, Wardle GM, McInerney FA, Lowe AJ. Plant and ant assemblages predicted to decouple under climate change. DIVERS DISTRIB 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Stefan Caddy‐Retalic
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia Australia
- School of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre Winnellie Northern Territory Australia
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia Australia
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- School of EnvironmentCharles Darwin University Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Sprigg Geobiology Centre and School of Physical SciencesUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia Australia
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia Australia
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Dalle Laste KC, Durigan G, Andersen AN. Biodiversity responses to land-use and restoration in a global biodiversity hotspot: Ant communities in Brazilian Cerrado. AUSTRAL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Keila Caroline Dalle Laste
- Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas; Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP); Rua José Barbosa de Barros 1780 Botucatu São Paulo 18610-307 Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Hidrologia Florestal; Floresta Estadual de Assis; Instituto Florestal; Assis São Paulo Brazil
- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Campinas Brazil
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- CSIRO Land & Water; Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; Winnellie Northern Territory Australia
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods; Charles Darwin University; Darwin Northern Territory 0909 Australia
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Del Toro I, Ribbons RR, Hayward J, Andersen AN. Are stacked species distribution models accurate at predicting multiple levels of diversity along a rainfall gradient? AUSTRAL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Israel Del Toro
- Lawrence University; 711 E Boldt Way Appleton Wisconsin 54911 USA
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Andersen AN. Responses of ant communities to disturbance: Five principles for understanding the disturbance dynamics of a globally dominant faunal group. J Anim Ecol 2018; 88:350-362. [PMID: 30280380 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Ecological disturbance is fundamental to the dynamics of biological communities, yet a conceptual framework for understanding the responses of faunal communities to disturbance remains elusive. Here, I propose five principles for understanding the disturbance dynamics of ants-a globally dominant faunal group that is widely used as bioindicators in land management, which appear to have wide applicability to other taxa. These principles are as follows: (1) The most important effects of habitat disturbance on ants are typically indirect, through its effects on habitat structure, microclimate, resource availability and competitive interactions; (2) habitat openness is a key driver of variation in ant communities; (3) ant species responses to disturbance are to a large degree determined by their responses to habitat openness; (4) the same disturbance will have different effects on ants in different habitats, because of different impacts on habitat openness; and (5) ant community responses to the same disturbance will vary according to ant functional composition and biogeographical history in relation to habitat openness. I illustrate these principles using results primarily from studies of ant responses to fire, a dominant agent of disturbance globally, to provide a common disturbance currency for comparative analysis. I argue that many of the principles also apply to other faunal groups and so can be considered as general ecological "laws." As is the case for ants, many impacts of habitat disturbance on other faunal groups are fundamentally related to habitat openness, the effects of disturbance on it and the functional composition of species in relation to it.
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- Alan N Andersen
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
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Arcoverde GB, Andersen AN, Leal IR, Setterfield SA. Habitat-contingent responses to disturbance: impacts of cattle grazing on ant communities vary with habitat complexity. Ecol Appl 2018; 28:1808-1817. [PMID: 29939460 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2017] [Revised: 05/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Predicting community responses to disturbance is a major challenge for both ecology and ecosystem management. A particularly challenging issue is that the same type and intensity of disturbance can have different impacts in different habitats. We investigate how habitat contingency influences ant community responses to disturbance in arid Australia, testing the hypothesis that disturbance has a greater impact in more complex habitats. We also assess the effectiveness of a highly simplified ant assessment protocol that considers larger species only. We sampled ants at 46 sites from two habitats (Chandler, low chenopod shrubland; and mulga, low woodland) with contrasting complexity, using distance from water as a surrogate for variation in grazing intensity. We assessed variation in habitat structural variables (basal area of perennial grass, and cover of herbs, litter, and bare ground) and ant communities in relation to habitat and distance from water, first using data from the entire ant community and then for larger ants (>4 mm body length) only. Site species richness was almost twice as high in mulga, the more structurally complex habitat, than in Chandler, and ant communities in mulga showed far more variation in relation to distance from water. Litter cover was the key environmental variable associated with the interaction between grazing and habitat: it increased with increasing distance from water in mulga and was virtually absent from Chandler. Analysis of only larger species revealed the same patterns of variation in ant abundance, species richness and composition in relation to habitat and grazing as shown by entire ant communities. Our findings support the hypothesis that disturbance impacts on faunal communities increase with increasing habitat complexity. An appreciation of such habitat contingency is important for a predictive understanding and therefore effective management of disturbances such as rangeland grazing. Our findings also show that simplified assessment can provide robust information on the responses of highly diverse ant communities to disturbance, which enhances their feasibility for use as bio-indicators in land management.
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- Gabriela B Arcoverde
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
- PMB 44, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, CSIRO Land & Water, Winnellie, Northern Territory, 0822, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
- PMB 44, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, CSIRO Land & Water, Winnellie, Northern Territory, 0822, Australia
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- Departamento de Botanica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/no, Recife, Pernambuco, 50670-901, Brazil
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
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Arnan X, Andersen AN, Gibb H, Parr CL, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Angulo E, Baccaro FB, Bishop TR, Boulay R, Castracani C, Cerdá X, Toro ID, Delsinne T, Donoso DA, Elten EK, Fayle TM, Fitzpatrick MC, Gómez C, Grasso DA, Grossman BF, Guénard B, Gunawardene N, Heterick B, Hoffmann BD, Janda M, Jenkins CN, Klimes P, Lach L, Laeger T, Leponce M, Lucky A, Majer J, Menke S, Mezger D, Mori A, Moses J, Munyai TC, Paknia O, Pfeiffer M, Philpott SM, Souza JLP, Tista M, Vasconcelos HL, Retana J. Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion. Glob Chang Biol 2018; 24:4614-4625. [PMID: 29851235 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The relationship between levels of dominance and species richness is highly contentious, especially in ant communities. The dominance-impoverishment rule states that high levels of dominance only occur in species-poor communities, but there appear to be many cases of high levels of dominance in highly diverse communities. The extent to which dominant species limit local richness through competitive exclusion remains unclear, but such exclusion appears more apparent for non-native rather than native dominant species. Here we perform the first global analysis of the relationship between behavioral dominance and species richness. We used data from 1,293 local assemblages of ground-dwelling ants distributed across five continents to document the generality of the dominance-impoverishment rule, and to identify the biotic and abiotic conditions under which it does and does not apply. We found that the behavioral dominance-diversity relationship varies greatly, and depends on whether dominant species are native or non-native, whether dominance is considered as occurrence or relative abundance, and on variation in mean annual temperature. There were declines in diversity with increasing dominance in invaded communities, but diversity increased with increasing dominance in native communities. These patterns occur along the global temperature gradient. However, positive and negative relationships are strongest in the hottest sites. We also found that climate regulates the degree of behavioral dominance, but differently from how it shapes species richness. Our findings imply that, despite strong competitive interactions among ants, competitive exclusion is not a major driver of local richness in native ant communities. Although the dominance-impoverishment rule applies to invaded communities, we propose an alternative dominance-diversification rule for native communities.
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Environmental Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institute of Insect Biology, University François Rabelais of Tours, Tours, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Biology Department, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnicamenk Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Appalachian Lab, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, Maryland
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- National Laboratory for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (LANASE), ENES, UNAM, Michoacan, Mexico
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- IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Nazaré Paulista, SP, Brasil
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Diabetology (DIAB), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany
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- Biodiversity Monitoring & Assessment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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- University of Florida Entomology & Nematology Department,, Gainesville, Florida
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of WA, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois
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- Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- ITZ, Ecology and Evolution, TiHo Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
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- Science and Technology for Amazonian Resources Graduate Program, Institute of Exact Sciences and Technology (ICET), Itacoatiara, AM, Brazil
- Biodiversity Coordination, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Division of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya, Spain
- Univ Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya, Spain
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Siqueira FFS, Ribeiro-Neto JD, Tabarelli M, Andersen AN, Wirth R, Leal IR. Human disturbance promotes herbivory by leaf-cutting ants in the Caatinga dry forest. Biotropica 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Felipe F. S. Siqueira
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n°, Cidade Universitária Recife PE 50670-901 Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n°, Cidade Universitária Recife PE 50670-901 Brazil
- Departamento de Fitotecnia e Ciências Ambientais; Centro de Ciências Agrárias; Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Rodovia PB-079 Areia PB 58397-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n°, Cidade Universitária Recife PE 50670-901 Brazil
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods; Charles Darwin University; Darwin NT 0909 Australia
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- Plant Ecology and Systematics; University of Kaiserslautern; PO Box 3049 Kaiserslautern 67663 Germany
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n°, Cidade Universitária Recife PE 50670-901 Brazil
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Andersen AN, Hoffmann BD, Oberprieler S. Diversity and biogeography of a species-rich ant fauna of the Australian seasonal tropics. Insect Sci 2018; 25:519-526. [PMID: 27629082 DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Revised: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Although ants are an ecologically dominant and extensively studied faunal group throughout the tropics, there is a poor understanding of tropical ant diversity and distribution at large spatial scales. Here we use a collection developed from 3 decades of ant surveys to present the first analysis of ant diversity and biogeography of a large tropical region. Our objective was to document the species richness, composition, and biogeographic distributions of the ant fauna of the 400 000 km2 "Top End" of Australia's Northern Territory. The known Top End ant fauna comprises 901 native species from 59 genera. The richest genera are Pheidole (90 species), Melophorus (83), Monomorium (83), Camponotus (71), Meranoplus (63), Polyrhachis (57), Rhytidoponera (50), Tetramorium (43), Cerapachys (32), and Iridomyrmex (31). The fauna is the center of diverse radiations within species-groups of genera such as Meranoplus, Rhytidoponera, and Leptogenys. It also includes IndoMalayan species that have likely bypassed the normal dispersal route into Australia through Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland. Faunistic similarity with other regions of far northern Australia is associated more with rainfall than with geographic proximity. Most (60%) of Top End ant species have not been recorded elsewhere, and, despite uncertainties relating to species delimitation and sampling intensity, this appears to be a credible estimate of the level of endemism. Such exceptionally high endemism can be attributed to the Top End's geographic isolation from other regions of northern Australia with comparably high rainfall.
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- Alan N Andersen
- CSIRO Land & Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Darwin, Australia
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
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- CSIRO Land & Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Darwin, Australia
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Davies HF, McCarthy MA, Rioli W, Puruntatameri J, Roberts W, Kerinaiua C, Kerinauia V, Womatakimi KB, Andersen AN, Murphy BP. An experimental test of whether pyrodiversity promotes mammal diversity in a northern Australian savanna. J Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Hugh F. Davies
- Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group; The University of Melbourne; Parkville Vic. Australia
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- Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group; The University of Melbourne; Parkville Vic. Australia
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- NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub; Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods; Charles Darwin University; Casuarina NT Australia
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- NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub; Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods; Charles Darwin University; Casuarina NT Australia
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Ribeiro LF, Solar RRC, Muscardi DC, Schoereder JH, Andersen AN. Extrafloral nectar as a driver of arboreal ant communities at the site-scale in Brazilian savanna. AUSTRAL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Laila Fieto Ribeiro
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Avenida P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Campus Universitário CEP 36570-000 Viçosa MG Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Geral; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Belo Horizonte MG Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas; Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; São Mateus ES Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Avenida P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Campus Universitário CEP 36570-000 Viçosa MG Brazil
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- Research School for the Environment and Livelihoods; Charles Darwin University; Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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Davies HF, McCarthy MA, Firth RSC, Woinarski JCZ, Gillespie GR, Andersen AN, Rioli W, Puruntatameri J, Roberts W, Kerinaiua C, Kerinauia V, Womatakimi KB, Murphy BP. Declining populations in one of the last refuges for threatened mammal species in northern Australia. AUSTRAL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hugh F. Davies
- Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
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- Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia
- Strategen Environmental Subiaco Western Australia Australia
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- NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia
- Flora and Fauna Division Department of Environment and Natural Resources Northern Territory Government Berrimah Northern Territory Australia
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- Flora and Fauna Division Department of Environment and Natural Resources Northern Territory Government Berrimah Northern Territory Australia
- School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria Australia
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- NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia
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- Tiwi Land Council Winnellie Northern Territory Australia
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- Tiwi Land Council Winnellie Northern Territory Australia
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- NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia
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Murphy BP, Andersen AN, Parr CL. The underestimated biodiversity of tropical grassy biomes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0319. [PMID: 27502382 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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For decades, there has been enormous scientific interest in tropical savannahs and grasslands, fuelled by the recognition that they are a dynamic and potentially unstable biome, requiring periodic disturbance for their maintenance. However, that scientific interest has not translated into widespread appreciation of, and concern about threats to, their biodiversity. In terms of biodiversity, grassy biomes are considered poor cousins of the other dominant biome of the tropics-forests. Simple notions of grassy biomes being species-poor cannot be supported; for some key taxa, such as vascular plants, this may be valid, but for others it is not. Here, we use an analysis of existing data to demonstrate that high-rainfall tropical grassy biomes (TGBs) have vertebrate species richness comparable with that of forests, despite having lower plant diversity. The Neotropics stand out in terms of both overall vertebrate species richness and number of range-restricted vertebrate species in TGBs. Given high rates of land-cover conversion in Neotropical grassy biomes, they should be a high priority for conservation and greater inclusion in protected areas. Fire needs to be actively maintained in these systems, and in many cases re-introduced after decades of inappropriate fire exclusion. The relative intactness of TGBs in Africa and Australia make them the least vulnerable to biodiversity loss in the immediate future. We argue that, like forests, TGBs should be recognized as a critical-but increasingly threatened-store of global biodiversity.This article is part of the themed issue 'Tropical grassy biomes: linking ecology, human use and conservation'.
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- Brett P Murphy
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia CSIRO Land and Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa
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Lawes MJ, Moore AM, Andersen AN, Preece ND, Franklin DC. Ants as ecological indicators of rainforest restoration: Community convergence and the development of an Ant Forest Indicator Index in the Australian wet tropics. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:8442-8455. [PMID: 29075461 PMCID: PMC5648658 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2016] [Revised: 02/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ecosystem restoration can help reverse biodiversity loss, but whether faunal communities of forests undergoing restoration converge with those of primary forest over time remains contentious. There is a need to develop faunal indicators of restoration success that more comprehensively reflect changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function. Ants are an ecologically dominant faunal group and are widely advocated as ecological indicators. We examine ant species and functional group responses on a chronosequence of rainforest restoration in northern Australia, and develop a novel method for selecting and using indicator species. Four sampling techniques were used to survey ants at 48 sites, from grassland, through various ages (1–24 years) of restoration plantings, to mature forest. From principal components analysis of seven vegetation metrics, we derived a Forest Development Index (FDI) of vegetation change along the chronosequence. A novel Ant Forest Indicator Index (AFII), based on the occurrences of ten key indicator species associated with either grassland or mature forest, was used to assess ant community change with forest restoration. Grasslands and mature forests supported compositionally distinct ant communities at both species and functional levels. The AFII was strongly correlated with forest development (FDI). At forest restoration sites older than 5–10 years that had a relatively closed canopy, ant communities converged on those of mature rainforest, indicating a promising restoration trajectory for fauna as well as plants. Our findings reinforce the utility of ants as ecological indicators and emphasize the importance of restoration methods that achieve rapid closed‐canopy conditions. The novel AFII assessed restoration status from diverse and patchily distributed species, closely tracking ant community succession using comprehensive species‐level data. It has wide applicability for assessing forest restoration in a way that is relatively independent of sampling methodology and intensity, and without a need for new comparative data from reference sites.
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- Michael J Lawes
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia.,Department of Geography McGill University Montreal QC Canada
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia.,CSIRO Land & Water Flagship Darwin NT Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia.,Centre for Tropical Environmental & Sustainability Science College of Science & Engineering James Cook University Townsville Qld Australia.,Biome 5 Pty Ltd. Atherton Qld Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia
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Caddy-Retalic S, Andersen AN, Aspinwall MJ, Breed MF, Byrne M, Christmas MJ, Dong N, Evans BJ, Fordham DA, Guerin GR, Hoffmann AA, Hughes AC, van Leeuwen SJ, McInerney FA, Prober SM, Rossetto M, Rymer PD, Steane DA, Wardle GM, Lowe AJ. Bioclimatic transect networks: Powerful observatories of ecological change. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:4607-4619. [PMID: 28690791 PMCID: PMC5496522 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Transects that traverse substantial climate gradients are important tools for climate change research and allow questions on the extent to which phenotypic variation associates with climate, the link between climate and species distributions, and variation in sensitivity to climate change among biomes to be addressed. However, the potential limitations of individual transect studies have recently been highlighted. Here, we argue that replicating and networking transects, along with the introduction of experimental treatments, addresses these concerns. Transect networks provide cost‐effective and robust insights into ecological and evolutionary adaptation and improve forecasting of ecosystem change. We draw on the experience and research facilitated by the Australian Transect Network to demonstrate our case, with examples, to clarify how population‐ and community‐level studies can be integrated with observations from multiple transects, manipulative experiments, genomics, and ecological modeling to gain novel insights into how species and systems respond to climate change. This integration can provide a spatiotemporal understanding of past and future climate‐induced changes, which will inform effective management actions for promoting biodiversity resilience.
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- Stefan Caddy-Retalic
- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences and Environment InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,Charles Darwin University Darwin NT Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Parramatta NSW Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences and Environment InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,Science and Conservation Division Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife Kensington WA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences and Environment InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University North Ryde NSW Australia.,Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia
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- Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences and Environment InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences and Environment InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of BioSciences, Bio 21 InstituteThe University of Melbourne Parkville VIC Australia
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- Centre for Integrative Conservation Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Menglun, Mengla County Yunnan China
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,Science and Conservation Division Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife Kensington WA Australia
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- Sprigg Geobiology Centre and School of Physical Sciences University of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,CSIRO Land and Water Wembley WA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,National Herbarium of NSW Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney NSW Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Parramatta NSW Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,CSIRO Land and Water Wembley WA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences University of Tasmania Private Bag 55 Hobart Tasmania 7001 Australia.,Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering University of the Sunshine Coast Maroochydore QLD Australia
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- School Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.,Long Term Ecological Research Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia
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- Australian Transect Network Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Adelaide SA Australia.,School of Biological Sciences and Environment InstituteUniversity of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia
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Gibb H, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ, Grossman BF, Photakis M, Abril S, Agosti D, Andersen AN, Angulo E, Armbrecht I, Arnan X, Baccaro FB, Bishop TR, Boulay R, Brühl C, Castracani C, Cerda X, Del Toro I, Delsinne T, Diaz M, Donoso DA, Ellison AM, Enriquez ML, Fayle TM, Feener DH, Fisher BL, Fisher RN, Fitzpatrick MC, Gómez C, Gotelli NJ, Gove A, Grasso DA, Groc S, Guenard B, Gunawardene N, Heterick B, Hoffmann B, Janda M, Jenkins C, Kaspari M, Klimes P, Lach L, Laeger T, Lattke J, Leponce M, Lessard JP, Longino J, Lucky A, Luke SH, Majer J, McGlynn TP, Menke S, Mezger D, Mori A, Moses J, Munyai TC, Pacheco R, Paknia O, Pearce-Duvet J, Pfeiffer M, Philpott SM, Resasco J, Retana J, Silva RR, Sorger MD, Souza J, Suarez A, Tista M, Vasconcelos HL, Vonshak M, Weiser MD, Yates M, Parr CL. A global database of ant species abundances. Ecology 2017; 98:883-884. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Heloise Gibb
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution; La Trobe University; Melbourne 3086 Victoria Australia
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- Department of Applied Ecology; North Carolina State University; Raleigh North Carolina 27695 USA
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution; La Trobe University; Melbourne 3086 Victoria Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution; La Trobe University; Melbourne 3086 Victoria Australia
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Naturhistorisches Museum Bern; Bernastrasse 15 3005 Bern Switzerland
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; PMB 44 Winnellie Northern Territory 0822 Australia
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- Departamento de Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad; Estación Biológica de Doñana; Avenida Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja) Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas; Universidad del Valle; Cali Colombia
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal Pernambuco; Avenida Prof Moraes Rego s/no Cidade Universitária Pernambuco Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia; Universidade Federal do Amazonas-UFAM; Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 3GP United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology and Entomology; Centre for Invasion Biology; University of Pretoria; Pretoria 0002 South Africa
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- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte et Département, d'Aménagement du Territoire Université; François Rabelais de Tours; Tours 37200 France
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences; University Koblenz-Landau; Fortstraße 7 76829 Landau in der Pfalz Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences; University of Parma; Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A Parma 43124 Italy
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- Departamento de Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad; Estación Biológica de Doñana; Avenida Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja) Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Société d'Histoire Naturelle Alcide-d'Orbigny; 57 rue de Gergovie 63170 Aubière France
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas; Escuela Politécnica Nacional; Avenida Ladrón de Guevara E11253 Quito Ecuador
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- Harvard Forest; Harvard University; 324 North Main Street Petersham Massachusetts 01366 USA
- Departments of Biology and Environmental Conservation; University of Massachusetts; Morrill Science Center and Holdsworth Hall, 611 North Pleasant Street Amherst Massachusetts 01003 USA
- Faculty of Arts, Business and Law; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast; 90 Sippy Downs Drive Sippy Downs Queensland 4556 Australia
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group; Imperial College London; Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road Ascot SL5 7PY United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City Utah 84112 USA
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- Entomology; California Academy of Sciences; San Francisco California USA
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- Western Ecological Research Center; U.S. Geological Survey; San Diego Field Station 4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200 San Diego California 92101 USA
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- Appalachian Laboratory; University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science; Frostburg Maryland 21532 USA
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Astron Environmental Services; Perth Western Australia Australia
- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
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- Department of Life Sciences; University of Parma; Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A Parma 43124 Italy
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara; Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Hong Kong; Pok Fu Lam Road Hong Kong China
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; PMB 44 Winnellie Northern Territory 0822 Australia
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- Department of Biology; University of Guanajuato; Noria Alta sn. Guanajuato Mexico
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- IPÊ-Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas; Nazaré Paulista São Paulo 12960-000 Brazil
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- Department of Biology; University of Oklahoma; 730 Van Vleet Oval, Room 314 Norman Oklahoma 73019 USA
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center; P.O. Box 604 Madang Papua New Guinea
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- Centre for Tropical Biology and Climate Change; School of Marine and Tropical Biology; James Cook University; P.O. Box 6811 Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Caixa Postal 19020 81531-980 Curitiba Paraná Brazil
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- Section of Biological Evaluation; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Rue Vautier, 29 Brussels 1000 Belgium
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- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City Utah 84112 USA
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- Entomology and Nematology Department; University of Florida; 970 Natural Area Drive Gainesville Florida 32611 USA
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- School of Biological Sciences; University of East Anglia; Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology; University of Cambridge; Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EJ United Kingdom
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
- School of Plant Biology; The University of Western Australia; 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Western Australia 6009 Australia
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- Depatment of Biology; California State University Dominguez Hills; 1000 East Victoria Street Carson California 90747 USA
- Department of Entomology; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Los Angeles California USA
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- Department of Biology; Lake Forest College; 555 North Sheridan Road Lake Forest Illinois 60045 USA
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- Division of Insects; Department of Zoology; Moreau Lab; Field Museum of Natural History; 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago Illinois 60605 USA
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- Department of Life Sciences; University of Parma; Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A Parma 43124 Italy
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- New Guinea Binatang Research Center; P.O. Box 604 Madang Papua New Guinea
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara; Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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- Department of Ecology; National University of Mongolia; Baga Toiruu 47 P.O. Box 377 Ulaanbaatar 210646 Mongolia
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- Department of Applied Ecology; North Carolina State University; Raleigh North Carolina 27695 USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade; National Institute of Amazonian Research; Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Department of Entomology; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Urbana Illinois 61801 USA
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- Department of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 Vienna 1030 Austria
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara; Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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- Department of Biology; Stanford University; Stanford California 94305 USA
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- Department of Biology; University of Oklahoma; 730 Van Vleet Oval, Room 314 Norman Oklahoma 73019 USA
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- Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, Zoology; University of New England; Armidale New South Wales Australia
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F, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:145-188. [PMID: 28070282 PMCID: PMC5215197 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 09/10/2016] [Accepted: 09/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and EnvironmentResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
| | - Samantha L. L. Hill
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
| | - Igor Lysenko
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
| | - Adriana De Palma
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
| | - Helen R. P. Phillips
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
- Frankfurt Zoological SocietyAfrica Regional OfficeArushaTanzania
| | - Victoria J. Burton
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP and the Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonSouth KensingtonLondonUK
| | | | - Argyrios Choimes
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
| | | | - Julie Day
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
| | - Susy Echeverría‐Londoño
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
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- School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of LondonLondonUK
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- School of Biological and Ecological SciencesUniversity of StirlingStirlingUK
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- School of Biological SciencesRoyal Holloway University of LondonEgham, SurreyUK
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- Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldWestern BankSheffieldUK
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- School of EnvironmentNatural Resources and GeographyBangor UniversityBangorGwyneddUK
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- Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldWestern BankSheffieldUK
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- School of Biological SciencesQueen's University BelfastBelfastUK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
- Evolutionary Ecology GroupUniversity of AntwerpAntwerpBelgium
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- Wildlife and Range Management DepartmentFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR)College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
- SAVE THE FROGS! GhanaAdum‐KumasiGhana
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- Laboratorio Ecotono‐CRUBUniversidad Nacional del Comahue and INIBIOMARío NegroArgentina
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- Departamento de BotánicaFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de ValenciaBurjassot, ValenciaSpain
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- Marine LaboratorySilliman University‐Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental ManagementSilliman UniversityDumaguete CityPhilippines
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- Department of Soil and Water ConservationCSIC‐Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del SeguraMurciaSpain
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- INRAUR 0980 SAD‐PaysageRennes CedexFrance
- INRAUMR 1201 DYNAFORCastanet Tolosan CedexFrance
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- HUTAN – Kinabatangan Orang‐utan Conservation ProgrammeKota KinabaluMalaysia
- Borneo FuturesKota KinabaluMalaysia
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- Museo de ZoologíaFacultad de CienciasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMéxico D.F.Mexico
- Colección de TejidosInstituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von HumboldtValle del CaucaColombia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y SustentabilidadUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMexico
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- College of Science, Engineering & HealthRMIT UniversityMelbourneVic.Australia
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- UCL Department of GeographyUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Biodiversity UnitInstitute of BioscienceUniversiti Putra MalaysiaSerdangMalaysia
- Faculty of ForestryUniversiti Putra MalaysiaSerdangMalaysia
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y GenéticaInstituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente EstableMontevideoUruguay
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- Forest & Nature LabDepartment of Forest and Water ManagementGhent UniversityGontrodeBelgium
- Terrestrial Ecology UnitDepartment of BiologyGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- UFR Science de la NatureUniversité Naangui AbrogouaAbidjanIvory Coast
- Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'IvoireAbidjanIvory Coast
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- MTA Centre for Ecological ResearchVácrátótHungary
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- Lancaster Environment CentreLancaster UniversityLancasterUK
- MCT/Museu Paraense Emílio GoeldiBelémBrazil
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- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- AgResearch LimitedInvermay Agricultural CentrePuddle Alley, MosgielNew Zealand
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteBalboaAnconPanama CityRepublic of Panama
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- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
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- BiosciencesSchool of Science & TechnologyNottingham Trent UniversityClifton, NottinghamUK
- University of BirminghamEdgbaston, BirminghamUK
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- Section of Conservation BiologyDepartment of Environmental SciencesUniversity of BaselBaselSwitzerland
| | - Erin M. Bayne
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
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- CIBIO/InBioCentro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoVairãoPortugal
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- Faculty of Sustainable AgricultureUniversiti Malaysia SabahSandakanMalaysia
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- The Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesThe Swedish Biodiversity CentreUppsalaSweden
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- Institute for Tropical Biology and ConservationUniversiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMSKota KinabaluMalaysia
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- Department of Zoology & Environmental ScienceGurukula Kangri UniversityHaridwarIndia
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- Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)School of Anthropology and ConservationUniversity of KentCanterburyUK
- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and DevelopmentGeorgetownGuyana
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- Department of Ecology‐Animal EcologyFaculty of BiologyPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
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- Compliance Services InternationalPentlands Science ParkPenicuik, EdinburghUK
- Centre for Agri‐Environmental ResearchSchool of Agriculture, Policy and DevelopmentUniversity of ReadingReadingUK
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- School for the Training of Wildlife Specialists GarouaGarouaCameroon
- Department of ForestryFaculty of Agronomy and Agricultural SciencesUniversity of DschangDschangCameroon
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- Mater Natura – Instituto de Estudos AmbientaisCuritibaBrazil
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- CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS‐KNAW)UtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F)Frankfurt am MainGermany
- Institute for Ecology, Evolution & DiversityGoethe University FrankfurtBiologicum, Frankfurt am MainGermany
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- School of Land and FoodUniversity of TasmaniaSandy BayTas.Australia
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- Departamento de Ciências AgráriascE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos AçoresAngra do Heroísmo, AçoresPortugal
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Science & Technology BranchCarleton UniversityOttawaONCanada
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et EmergentesCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)MontpellierFrance
- Unité Mixte de Recherche 1309 Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et EmergentesInstitut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)MontpellierFrance
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- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de BiociênciasUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
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- Human Environment Systems CenterBoise State UniversityBoiseIDUSA
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- School of Science and the EnvironmentManchester Metropolitan UniversityManchesterUK
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- Natural Parks Technical OfficeDiputació de BarcelonaBarcelonaSpain
- Natural History Museum of BarcelonaBarcelona, CataloniaSpain
| | - Jörg Brunet
- Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSouthern Swedish Forest Research CentreAlnarpSweden
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- Alterra, part of Wageningen University and ResearchRB WageningenThe Netherlands
| | - Erika Buscardo
- Departamento de Ciências da VidaCentro de Ecologia FuncionalUniversidade de CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
- Departamento de Biologia VegetalInstituto de BiologiaUniversidade Estadual de CampinasCampinasBrazil
- Department of BotanySchool of Natural SciencesTrinity College DublinDublin 2Ireland
| | - Jörn Buse
- Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
| | - Jimmy Cabra‐García
- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de BiociênciasUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
- Departamento de BiologíaGrupo de investigación en BiologíaEcología y Manejo de HormigasSección de EntomologíaUniversidad del ValleCaliColombia
| | - Nilton C. Cáceres
- Department of BiologyFederal University of Santa Maria, CCNESanta MariaBrazil
| | | | - María Calviño‐Cancela
- Department of Ecology and Animal BiologyFaculty of SciencesUniversity of VigoVigoSpain
| | - Sydney A. Cameron
- Department of EntomologyUniversity of IllinoisUrbanaILUSA
- Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation BiologyUniversity of IllinoisUrbanaILUSA
| | | | - Rut Caparrós
- Departamento de BotánicaFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de ValenciaBurjassot, ValenciaSpain
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | - Pedro Cardoso
- Departamento de Ciências AgráriascE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos AçoresAngra do Heroísmo, AçoresPortugal
- Finnish Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
| | - Dan Carpenter
- Parks and CountrysideBracknell Forest CouncilBracknellUK
- Soil Biodiversity GroupLife Sciences DepartmentNatural History MuseumLondonUK
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aplicada à ConservaçãoUniversidade Estadual de Santa CruzIlhéusBrazil
| | - Helena Castro
- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education CenterTurrialbaCosta Rica
| | - Alexis Cerezo
- Department of Quantitative Methods and Information SystemsFaculty of AgronomyUniversity of Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina
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- Normandie UnivEA 1293 ECODIV‐RouenSFR SCALEUFR Sciences et TechniquesMont Saint Aignan CedexFrance
| | | | - Francis M. Clarke
- Institute of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
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- Dipartimento di BiologiaUniversità degli Studi di MilanoMilanoItaly
| | - Stuart P. Connop
- Sustainability Research InstituteUniversity of East LondonLondonUK
| | - Michael D. Craig
- Centre of Excellence for Environmental DecisionsSchool of Plant BiologyUniversity of Western AustraliaNedlandsWAAustralia
- School of Veterinary and Life SciencesMurdoch UniversityMurdochWAAustralia
| | - Leopoldo Cruz‐López
- Grupo Ecología de Artrópodos y Manejo de PlagasEl Colegio de la Frontera SurTapachulaMexico
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- Dipartimento di BiologiaUniversità di Napoli Federico IINapoliItaly
| | - Neil D'Cruze
- Wildlife Conservation Research UnitDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of OxfordRecanati‐Kaplan CentreTubneyUK
| | - Pedro Giovâni da Silva
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em EcologiaUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaFlorianópolisBrazil
| | - Martin Dallimer
- Sustainability Research InstituteSchool of Earth and EnvironmentUniversity of LeedsLeedsUK
| | - Emmanuel Danquah
- Wildlife and Range Management DepartmentFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR)College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
| | | | - Jens Dauber
- Thünen Institute of BiodiversityBraunschweigGermany
| | - Adrian L. V. Davis
- Scarab Research GroupDepartment of Zoology & EntomologyUniversity of PretoriaHatfieldSouth Africa
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- Durrell Wildlife Conservation TrustTrinityJersey
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- CIRADUMR SystemMontpellierFrance
- ICRAFRegional Office for Latin AmericaLimaPeru
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- UPSINPLaboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et EnvironnementUniversité de ToulouseToulouseFrance
- CNRS – UMR 5245EcolabToulouseFrance
- CNRS – UMR 8172Écologie des Forêts de GuyaneKourou cedexFrance
| | | | - Tim Diekötter
- Department of Landscape EcologyInstitute of Natural Resource ConservationKiel UniversityKielGermany
- Department of Biology, Nature ConservationUniversity MarburgMarburgGermany
- Institute of Integrative BiologyETH ZürichZürichSwitzerland
| | - Jignasu V. Dolia
- Post Graduate Program in Wildlife Biology and ConservationNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangaloreIndia
- Wildlife Conservation Society (India Program)Centre for Wildlife StudiesBangaloreIndia
| | - Erwin Domínguez
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias – INIA – CRI – KampenaikePunta ArenasChile
| | | | - Silvia Dorn
- Applied EntomologyETH ZürichZürichSwitzerland
| | - Isabel Draper
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | - Niels Dreber
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth‐West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa
- Department of Ecosystem ModellingBüsgen‐InstituteGeorg‐August‐University of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
| | | | - Simon G. Dures
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
- Institute of ZoologyZoological Society of London, Regents ParkLondonUK
| | - Mats Dynesius
- Department of Ecology and Environmental ScienceUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
| | - Lars Edenius
- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeaSweden
| | - Paul Eggleton
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
| | - Felix Eigenbrod
- Centre for Biological SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
| | - Zoltán Elek
- MTA‐ELTE‐MTM Ecology Research GroupHungarian Academy of Sciencesc/o Biological InstituteEötvös Lóránd UniversityBudapestHungary
- Hungarian Natural History MuseumBudapestHungary
| | - Martin H. Entling
- Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity of Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
| | - Karen J. Esler
- Department of Conservation Ecology and EntomologyStellenbosch UniversityMatielandSouth Africa
- Centre for Invasion BiologyStellenbosch UniversityMatielandSouth Africa
| | - Ricardo F. de Lima
- CE3C – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental ChangesFaculdade de CiênciasUniversidade de LisboaLisboaPortugal
- Associação Monte PicoMonte CaféMé ZóchiSão Tomé and Príncipe
| | - Aisyah Faruk
- Kew GardensWakehurstArdingly, Haywards Heath, SussexUK
- Wild AsiaUpper PenthouseWisma RKTKuala LumpurMalaysia
| | - Nina Farwig
- Conservation EcologyFaculty of BiologyPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
| | - Tom M. Fayle
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
- Institute of EntomologyBiology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech RepublicČeské BudějoviceCzech Republic
- Institute for Tropical Biology and ConservationUniversiti Malaysia SabahKota KinabaluMalaysia
| | | | | | - Roderick J. Fensham
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandSt LuciaQldAustralia
- Queensland Herbarium (DSITIA)ToowongQldAustralia
| | | | | | | | - Cristina Fiera
- Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian AcademyBucharestRomania
| | | | | | - David Flaspohler
- School of Forest Resources and Environmental ScienceMichigan Technological UniversityHoughtonMIUSA
| | - Andreas Floren
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | - Steven J. Fonte
- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
- Department of Soil and Crop SciencesColorado State UniversityFort CollinsCOUSA
| | | | | | - Markus Franzén
- Department of Community EcologyUFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchHalleGermany
| | - Lauchlan H. Fraser
- Department of Natural Resource SciencesThompson Rivers UniversityKamloopsBCCanada
| | - Gabriella M. Fredriksson
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)University of AmsterdamGE AmsterdamThe Netherlands
- PanEco/Yayasan Ekosistem LestariSumatran Orangutan Conservation ProgrammeMedanIndonesia
| | - Geraldo B. Freire
- Programa de Pós Graduação em EcologiaUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasília, Distrito FederalBrazil
| | - Tiago L. M. Frizzo
- Programa de Pós Graduação em EcologiaUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasília, Distrito FederalBrazil
| | | | - Dario Furlani
- Dipartimento di BiologiaUniversità degli Studi di MilanoMilanoItaly
| | - René Gaigher
- Department of Conservation Ecology and EntomologyStellenbosch UniversityMatielandSouth Africa
| | | | - Karla P. García
- Departamento de ZoologíaFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y OceanográficasUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
- Departamento de Planificación TerritorialFacultad de Ciencias AmbientalesCentro EULA‐ChileUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
| | | | - Jenni G. Garden
- Seed Consulting ServicesAdelaideSAAustralia
- Environmental Futures Research InstituteGriffith UniversityBrisbaneQldAustralia
- Barbara Hardy InstituteUniversity of South AustraliaMawson LakesSAAustralia
| | - Ricardo Garilleti
- Departamento de BotánicaFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de ValenciaBurjassot, ValenciaSpain
| | - Bao‐Ming Ge
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline SoilsYancheng Teachers UniversityYanchengChina
| | - Benoit Gendreau‐Berthiaume
- Département des sciences biologiquesCentre d’études de la forêt Université du Québec à Montréal Succursale Centre‐villeMontréalQCCanada
| | | | - Carla Gheler‐Costa
- Ecologia Aplicada/Applied EcologyUniversidade Sagrado Coração (USC)BauruBrazil
| | - Benjamin Gilbert
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
| | | | | | | | | | - Rachelle K. Gould
- Rubenstein School of Natural ResourcesUniversity of VermontBurlingtonVTUSA
| | - Dave Goulson
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
| | - Aaron D. Gove
- Astron Environmental ServicesEast PerthWAAustralia
- Department of Environment and AgricultureCurtin UniversityPerthWAAustralia
| | - Laurent Granjon
- Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (CBGP)INRAIRDCIRADSUPAGROMontferrier‐sur‐Lez cedexFrance
| | - Ingo Grass
- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
- Conservation EcologyFaculty of BiologyPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
| | - Claudia L. Gray
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
- Department of ZoologyUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
| | - James Grogan
- Department of Biological SciencesMount Holyoke CollegeSouth HadleyMAUSA
| | - Weibin Gu
- China International Engineering Consulting CorporationHaidian DistrictBeijingChina
| | | | | | - Alvaro G. Gutierrez
- Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales RenovablesFacultad de Ciencias AgronómicasUniversidad de ChileLa PintanaChile
| | | | - Daniela H. Haarmeyer
- Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology of Plants (BEE)Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical GardenUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
| | - Mick E. Hanley
- School of Biological ScienceUniversity of PlymouthPlymouthUK
| | | | - Nor R. Hashim
- International University of Malaya‐Wales, Jalan Tun IsmailKuala LumpurMalaysia
| | - Shombe N. Hassan
- Department of Wildlife ManagementSokoine University of AgricultureMorogoroTanzania
| | | | - Joseph E. Hawes
- Animal & Environment Research GroupDepartment of Life SciencesAnglia Ruskin UniversityCambridgeUK
| | - Matt W. Hayward
- Walter Sisulu UniversityMthatha, TranskeiSouth Africa
- Centre for African Conservation EcologyNelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityPort ElizabethSouth Africa
- College of Natural SciencesBangor UniversityBangor, GwyneddUK
| | - Christian Hébert
- Natural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceLaurentian Forestry CentreQuébecQCCanada
| | - Alvin J. Helden
- Animal & Environment Research GroupDepartment of Life SciencesAnglia Ruskin UniversityCambridgeUK
| | - John‐André Henden
- Department of Arctic and Marine BiologyUniversity of TromsøTromsøNorway
| | | | - Lionel Hernández
- Universidad Nacional Experimental de GuayanaPuerto OrdazVenezuela
| | - James P. Herrera
- Richard Gilder Graduate SchoolAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkNYUSA
| | - Farina Herrmann
- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
| | | | | | - Branko Hilje
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences DepartmentUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
| | - Hubert Höfer
- State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (SMNK)BiosciencesKarlsruheGermany
| | - Anke Hoffmann
- Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity ScienceBerlinGermany
| | - Finbarr G. Horgan
- University of Technology SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
- University of New BrunswickFrederictonNBCanada
| | - Elisabeth Hornung
- Department of EcologyFaculty of Veterinary ScienceSZIE UniversityBudapestHungary
| | - Roland Horváth
- Department of EcologyUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary
| | - Kristoffer Hylander
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant SciencesStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
| | - Paola Isaacs‐Cubides
- Instituto de Investigaciones y Recursos Biológicos Alexander von HumboldtBogotá, Colombia
| | - Hiroaki Ishida
- Institute of Natural and Environmental SciencesUniversity of HyogoHyogoJapan
| | | | - Carmen T. Jacobs
- Scarab Research GroupDepartment of Zoology & EntomologyUniversity of PretoriaHatfieldSouth Africa
| | - Víctor J. Jaramillo
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y SustentabilidadUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMéxico C.P.Mexico
| | - Birgit Jauker
- Department of Animal EcologyJustus‐Liebig‐UniversityGiessenGermany
| | | | | | - Virat Jolli
- Biodiversity and Environmental SustainabilityRohiniIndia
- Department of Environmental StudiesShivaji College (University of Delhi)New DelhiIndia
| | - Mats Jonsell
- Department of EcologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
| | - S. Nur Juliani
- School of Biological SciencesUniversiti Sains MalaysiaMindenMalaysia
| | | | | | - Heike Kappes
- Cologne BiocenterZoological InstituteUniversity of CologneKölnGermany
| | - Vassiliki Kati
- Department of Environmental & Natural Resources ManagementUniversity of PatrasAgrinioGreece
| | - Eric Katovai
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) & College of Marine and Environmental SciencesJames Cook UniversityCairnsQldAustralia
- School of Science and TechnologyPacific Adventist UniversityPort MoresbyPapua New Guinea
| | - Klaus Kellner
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth‐West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa
| | - Michael Kessler
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary BotanyUniversity of ZürichZürichSwitzerland
| | - Kathryn R. Kirby
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Geography and PlanningUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
| | | | | | - Eva Knop
- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
| | - Florian Kohler
- Section EnvironnementDéveloppement durable et TerritoireDivision Environnement et TerritoireBundesamt für StatistikNeuchâtelSwitzerland
| | - Matti Koivula
- School of Forest SciencesUniversity of Eastern FinlandJoensuuFinland
| | - Annette Kolb
- Institute of Ecology, FB2University of BremenBremenGermany
| | - Mouhamadou Kone
- Université Peleforo Gon CoulibalyKorhogoIvory Coast
- Station d'Ecologie de LamtoN'DouciIvory Coast
| | - Ádám Kőrösi
- MTA‐ELTE‐MTM Ecology Research GroupHungarian Academy of Sciencesc/o Biological InstituteEötvös Lóránd UniversityBudapestHungary
- Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology GroupDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | - Jochen Krauss
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | - Ajith Kumar
- Wildlife Conservation Society‐IndiaNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangaloreIndia
| | | | - David J. Kurz
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
| | - Alex S. Kutt
- School of BioSciencesUniversity of MelbourneMelbourneVic.Australia
| | - Thibault Lachat
- School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFLBern University of Applied SciencesZollikofenSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for ForestSnow and Landscape Research WSLBirmensdorfSwitzerland
| | - Victoria Lantschner
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología AgropecuariaEEA BarilocheBarilocheArgentina
| | - Francisco Lara
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | - Jesse R. Lasky
- Department of BiologyPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkPAUSA
| | | | - William F. Laurance
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability SciencesCollege of Marine and Environmental ScienceJames Cook UniversityCairnsQldAustralia
| | - Patrick Lavelle
- Université Pierre‐et‐Marie‐CurieParisFrance
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental SciencesParisFrance
| | | | - Gretchen LeBuhn
- Department of BiologySan Francisco State UniversitySan FranciscoCAUSA
| | - Jean‐Philippe Légaré
- Laboratoire de diagnostic en phytoprotectionMinistère de l'agriculture, des pêcheries et de l'alimentation du QuébecVille de QuébecQCCanada
| | - Valérie Lehouck
- Research Unit Terrestrial EcologyGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
| | - María V. Lencinas
- Laboratorio de Recursos AgroforestalesCentro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)UshuaiaArgentina
| | - Pia E. Lentini
- School of BiosciencesUniversity of MelbourneParkvilleVic.Australia
| | | | - Qi Li
- Institute of Applied EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShenyangChina
| | - Simon A. Litchwark
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of CanterburyChristchurchNew Zealand
| | | | - Yunhui Liu
- College of Resources and Environmental SciencesChina Agricultural UniversityBeijingChina
| | | | | | - Mounir Louhaichi
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)Amman OfficeAmmanJordan
- Animal and Rangeland Sciences DepartmentOregon State UniversityCorvallisORUSA
| | - Gabor L. Lövei
- Department of AgroecologyFlakkebjerg Research CentreAarhus UniversitySlagelseDenmark
| | - Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja
- Department of Agroforestry Technology and Science and GeneticsSchool of Advanced Agricultural EngineeringCastilla La Mancha UniversityAlbaceteSpain
| | - Victor H. Luja
- Unidad Académica de TurismoCoordinación de Investigación y PosgradoUniversidad Autónoma de NayaritTepicMexico
| | - Matthew S. Luskin
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
| | | | - Kaoru Maeto
- Graduate School of Agricultural ScienceKobe UniversityKobeJapan
| | - Tibor Magura
- Department of EcologyUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary
| | - Neil Aldrin Mallari
- Center for Conservation InnovationSan Jose Tagaytay CityPhilippines
- Biology DepartmentDe La Salle UniversityManilaPhilippines
| | - Louise A. Malone
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research LimitedAucklandNew Zealand
| | | | - Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and ClimateNatural History Museum of DenmarkUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagen ØDenmark
| | - Salvador Mandujano
- Red de Biología y Conservación de VertebradosInstituto de Ecología A.C.XalapaMexico
| | | | | | | | | | - Eliana Martínez
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad UniversitariaBogotáColombia
| | - Guillermo Martínez Pastur
- Laboratorio de Recursos AgroforestalesCentro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)UshuaiaArgentina
| | | | | | - Vicente Mazimpaka
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | | | - Kyle P. McCarthy
- Department of Entomology and Wildlife EcologyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDEUSA
| | | | - Sean McNamara
- Centre for Mined Land RehabilitationThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
| | - Nagore G. Medina
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio GlobalMuseo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)MadridSpain
| | - Rafael Medina
- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
| | - Jose L. Mena
- Museo de Historia Natural “Vera Alleman Haeghebaert”Universidad Ricardo PalmaLima 33Peru
| | - Estefania Mico
- Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO)Universidad de AlicanteAlicanteSpain
| | - Grzegorz Mikusinski
- Department of EcologySwedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Grimsö Wildlife Research StationRiddarhyttanSweden
| | - Jeffrey C. Milder
- Rainforest AllianceNew YorkNYUSA
- Department of Natural ResourcesCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
| | - James R. Miller
- Department of Natural Resources & Environmental SciencesUniversity of IllinoisUrbanaILUSA
| | | | - Melinda L. Moir
- School of BiosciencesUniversity of MelbourneParkvilleVic.Australia
- School of Plant BiologyUniversity of Western AustraliaCrawleyWAAustralia
| | - Carolina L. Morales
- Lab. EcotonoINIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue‐CONICET)BarilocheArgentina
| | | | - Muchai Muchane
- Department of Wildlife ManagementUniversity of EldoretEldoretKenya
| | - Sonja Mudri‐Stojnic
- Department of Biology and EcologyFaculty of SciencesUniversity of Novi SadNovi SadSerbia
| | - A. Nur Munira
- School of Biological SciencesUniversiti Sains MalaysiaPenangMalaysia
| | - Antonio Muoñz‐Alonso
- El Colegio de la Frontera SurEcología Evolutiva y ConservaciónSan Cristóbal de las CasasMexico
| | | | | | - A. Naithani
- Independent Research ScholarNew DelhiIndia
- Avian Diversity and Bioacoustic LabDepartment of ZoologyGurukula Kangri UniversityHaridwarIndia
| | - Michiko Nakagawa
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural SciencesNagoya UniversityNagoyaJapan
| | - Akihiro Nakamura
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest EcologyXishuangbanna Tropical Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesMenglunChina
- Environmental Futures Research Institute, and Griffith School of EnvironmentGriffith UniversityNathanBrisbaneQldAustralia
| | | | - Shoji Naoe
- Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTsukubaJapan
| | - Guiomar Nates‐Parra
- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas (Departamento de Biología)Universidad Nacional de ColombiaBogotáColombia
| | | | | | - Paul K. Ndang'ang'a
- BirdLife International – Africa Partnership SecretariatNairobiKenya
- Ornithology SectionNational Museums of KenyaNairobiKenya
| | - Eike L. Neuschulz
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F)Frankfurt am MainGermany
| | | | - Violaine Nicolas
- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, BiodiversitéISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHEMuséum national d'Histoire naturelleSorbonne UniversitésParisFrance
| | | | - Norbertas Noreika
- Department of BiosciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
- Department of Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
| | - Olivia Norfolk
- School of BiologyThe University of NottinghamUniversity ParkNottinghamUK
| | - Jorge Ari Noriega
- Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática – LAZOEAUniversidad de Los AndesBogotáColombia
| | - David A. Norton
- School of ForestryUniversity of CanterburyChristchurchNew Zealand
| | | | - A. Justin Nowakowski
- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation BiologyUniversity of California, DavisDavisCAUSA
| | - Catherine Numa
- IUCN‐Centre for Mediterranean CooperationCampanillas, MálagaSpain
| | - Niall O'Dea
- Oxford University Centre for the EnvironmentUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
| | - Patrick J. O'Farrell
- Natural Resources and the EnvironmentCSIRStellenboschSouth Africa
- Plant Conservation UnitBiological SciencesUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschSouth Africa
| | - William Oduro
- Wildlife and Range Management DepartmentFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR)College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
- International Programme Office (IPO)Vice Chancellor's OfficeKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
| | - Sabine Oertli
- Naturschutz – Planung und BeratungWiesendangenSwitzerland
| | - Caleb Ofori‐Boateng
- Department of Wildlife and Range ManagementKwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyKumasiGhana
- Forestry Research Institute of GhanaKumasiGhana
| | | | - Vicencio Oostra
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentUniversity College LondonLondonUK
| | | | - Samuel Eduardo Otavo
- Laboratorio de Ecología del PaisajeFacultad de Ciencias ForestalesUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
| | | | - Juan Paritsis
- Laboratorio EcotonoCONICET–INIBIOMAUniversidad Nacional del ComahueBarilocheArgentina
| | - Alejandro Parra‐H
- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en AbejasLABUNUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaBogotá D.C.Colombia
| | - Luke Parry
- Lancaster Environment CentreLancaster UniversityLancasterUK
- Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazonicos (NAEA)BelémBrazil
| | - Guy Pe'er
- Department of Community EcologyUFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchHalleGermany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigGermany
| | - Peter B. Pearman
- Department of Plant Biology and EcologyFaculty of Science and TechnologyUniversity of the Basque CountryLeioaSpain
- IKERBASQUE. Basque Foundation for ScienceBilbaoSpain
| | - Nicolás Pelegrin
- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA, CONICET‐UNC) and Centro de Zoología AplicadaFCEFyNUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaCórdobaArgentina
| | - Raphaël Pélissier
- IRDUMR AMAPTA A51/PS2Montpellier cedex 05France
- French Institute of PondicherryUMIFRE 21 CNRS‐MAEEPuducherryIndia
| | - Carlos A. Peres
- School of Environmental SciencesUniversity of East AngliaNorwichUK
| | - Pablo L. Peri
- National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA)Río GallegosArgentina
- National University of Southern Patagonia (UNPA)Río GallegosArgentina
- National Commission of Scientist Research and Technology (CONICET)Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | | | - Theodora Petanidou
- Laboratory of Biogeography & EcologyDepartment of GeographyUniversity of the AegeanMytileneGreece
| | - Marcell K. Peters
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | | | - Ben Phalan
- Conservation Science GroupDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
| | - T. Keith Philips
- Systematics and Evolution LaboratoryDepartment of BiologyWestern Kentucky UniversityBowling GreenKYUSA
| | - Finn C. Pillsbury
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and ManagementIowa State UniversityAmesIAUSA
| | - Jimmy Pincheira‐Ulbrich
- Departamento de ZoologíaFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y OceanográficasUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
- Facultad de Recursos NaturalesEscuela de Ciencias AmbientalesLaboratorio de Planificación TerritorialUniversidad Católica de TemucoTemucoChile
| | - Eduardo Pineda
- Biología y Conservación de VertebradosInstituto de Ecología A.C.El Haya, XalapaMexico
| | - Joan Pino
- CREAFCerdanyola del Vallès, CataloniaSpain
- Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
| | - Jaime Pizarro‐Araya
- Laboratorio de Entomología EcológicaDepartamento de BiologíaFacultad de CienciasUniversidad de La SerenaLa SerenaChile
| | - A. J. Plumptre
- Albertine Rift ProgramWildlife Conservation SocietyKampalaUganda
| | - Santiago L. Poggio
- IFEVA/Cátedra de Producción VegetalDepartamento de Producción VegetalFacultad de AgronomíaUniversidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET.Buenos AiresArgentina
| | - Natalia Politi
- Directora del Programa Conservación de Biodiversidad en Bosques SubtropicalesCátedra de Desarrollo Sustentable y BiodiversidadFacultad de Ciencias AgrariasUniversidad Nacional de JujuyCIT‐Jujuy CONICET, Fundaciòn CEBioSan Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
| | - Pere Pons
- Departament de Ciències AmbientalsUniversitat de GironaGironaSpain
| | | | - Eileen F. Power
- BotanySchool of Natural SciencesTrinity College DublinDublin 2Ireland
| | - Steven J. Presley
- Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
| | - Vânia Proença
- MARETEC, Instituto Superior TécnicoUniversidade de LisboaLisbonPortugal
| | - Marino Quaranta
- CREA‐ABP, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria, Centro di ricerca per l'agrobiologia e la pedologiaFirenzeItaly
| | - Carolina Quintero
- Laboratorio EcotonoCONICET–INIBIOMAUniversidad Nacional del ComahueBarilocheArgentina
| | - Romina Rader
- Ecosystem Management, School of Environment and Rural ScienceUniversity of New EnglandArmidaleNSWAustralia
| | - B. R. Ramesh
- French Institute of PondicherryUMIFRE 21 CNRS‐MAEEPuducherryIndia
| | | | - Jai Ranganathan
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and SynthesisUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCAUSA
| | | | | | - J. Leighton Reid
- Center for Conservation and Sustainable DevelopmentMissouri Botanical GardenSaint LouisMOUSA
| | - Yana T. Reis
- Departamento de BiologiaUniversidade Federal de SergipeSão Cristóvão/SeBrazil
| | | | - Juan Carlos Rey‐Velasco
- Entomology Colletion, Systematics and Biogeography LaboratorySchool of BiologyIndustrial University of SantanderBucaramangaColombia
| | - Chevonne Reynolds
- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African OrnithologyDST/NRF Centre of ExcellenceUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschCape TownSouth Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental SciencesUniversity of the WitwatersrandWitsSouth Africa
| | - Danilo Bandini Ribeiro
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da SaúdeUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulCampo GrandeBrazil
| | | | - Barbara A. Richardson
- EdinburghUK
- Luquillo LTER, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, College of Natural SciencesUniversity of Puerto Rico at Rio PiedrasSan JuanPRUSA
| | - Michael J. Richardson
- EdinburghUK
- Luquillo LTER, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, College of Natural SciencesUniversity of Puerto Rico at Rio PiedrasSan JuanPRUSA
| | - Rodrigo Macip Ríos
- Escuela Nacional de Estudios SuperioresUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMexico
| | - Richard Robinson
- Science and Conservation DivisionDepartment of Parks and WildlifeManjimupWAAustralia
| | - Carolina A. Robles
- PROPLAME‐PRHIDEB‐CONICETDepartamento de Biodiversidad y Biología ExperimentalFacultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria(CP1428EHA) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos AiresArgentina
| | - Jörg Römbke
- ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbHFlörsheim am MainGermany
- LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK‐FFrankfurt/MainGermany
| | - Luz Piedad Romero‐Duque
- Facultad de Ciencias AmbientalesUniversidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.ABogotáColombia
| | - Matthias Rös
- Catedras CONACYTCIIDIR, Unidad Oaxaca, IPNSanta Cruz Xoxocotlán, Mexico
| | - Loreta Rosselli
- Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A.BogotáColombia
| | - Stephen J. Rossiter
- School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of LondonLondonUK
| | - Dana S. Roth
- School of Natural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Environmental SciencesUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesvilleVAUSA
- Blandy Experimental FarmBoyceVAUSA
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- Département des sciences biologiques (SB)Universitédu Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)MontréalQCCanada
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of BirminghamBirminghamUK
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- Institute of Silviculture and Forest ProtectionUniversity of West HungarySopronHungary
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- Red de Ecología FuncionalInstituto de Ecología A.C. Carretera antigua a CoatepecEl Haya, XalapaMexico
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- Environmental Futures Research InstituteGriffith UniversityBrisbaneQldAustralia
- Biology Centre CASInstitute of EntomologyCeske BudejoviceCzech Republic
- Faculty of ScienceUniversity of South BohemiaCeske BudejoviceCzech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant SciencesStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
- Department of Biology/BiodiversityLund UniversityLundSweden
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- CIBIO/InBioCentro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoVairãoPortugal
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- CIBIO/InBioCentro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoVairãoPortugal
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterCR LeidenThe Netherlands
- Institute for Tropical Biology and ConservationUniversiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMSKota KinabaluMalaysia
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- Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical GardenUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
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- Center for Development Research (ZEF)University of BonnBonnGermany
- Chair for Landscape ManagementUniversity of FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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- AgResearch LimitedLincoln Research CentreChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Institute for Ecology, Evolution and DiversityGoethe University FrankfurtFrankfurt am MainGermany
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- Department of Community EcologyUFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchHalleGermany
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- Biology and Biomedical Sciences DivisionUniversity of BrightonBrightonUK
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- School of Natural Resources and ExtensionUniversity of Alaska FairbanksFairbanksAKUSA
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- College of Natural SciencesBangor UniversityBangor, GwyneddUK
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of KwaZulu‐NatalDurbanSouth Africa
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- Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA)Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)ÅsNorway
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
- Baton RougeLAUSA
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- Department of Life SciencesBen‐Gurion University of the NegevBe'er ShevaIsrael
- The Yerucham Center of Ornithology and EcologyYeruchamIsrael
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth‐West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa
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- Organic Research CentreElm FarmNewburyUK
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- United States Department of AgricultureSouth San FranciscoCAUSA
- Universidad Nacional de ColombiaSede MedellinMedellinColombia
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- Department of Biological SciencesNational University of SingaporeSingaporeSingapore
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- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education CenterTurrialbaCosta Rica
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- Ecología de Comunidades Ãridas y Semiaridas (EComAS)Departamento de RecursosFacultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesUNLPam.Santa rosaLa PampaUruguay
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- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education CenterTurrialbaCosta Rica
- Gobierno Autónomo Departamental Santa CruzSanta Cruz de la SierraBolivia
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- Université du Québec à RimouskiCentre for Northern Research, Centre for Forest StudiesRimouskiQCCanada
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- CREAFCerdanyola del Vallès, CataloniaSpain
- Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
- Museu de Ciències Naturals de GranollersGranollersBarcelonaSpain
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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- School of Renewable Natural ResourcesLouisiana State University Agricultural CenterBaton RougeLAUSA
- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments ProjectInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManausBrazil
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- BotanySchool of Natural SciencesTrinity College DublinDublin 2Ireland
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental ManagementUniversity of HawaiiManoaHonoluluHIUSA
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- Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)School of Anthropology and ConservationUniversity of KentCanterburyUK
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and EvolutionInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang DistrictBeijingChina
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional EcologyResearch Center for Eco‐Environmental SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesHaidian DistrictBeijingChina
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- Institute of ZoologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life SciencesViennaAustria
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- Graduate School of Agricultural ScienceKobe UniversityKobeJapan
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- Department of BiologyHong Kong Baptist UniversityKowloon Tong, Hong Kong SARChina
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- Zoological DivisionResearch Center For BiologyThe Indonesian Institute of SciencesCibinongBogorIndonesia
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- Section for Ecoinformatics & BiodiversityDepartment of BioscienceAarhus UniversityAarhus CDenmark
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth SciencesUniversity of TartuTartuEstonia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, Faculty of ScienceThe University of MelbourneRichmondVic.Australia
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth SciencesUniversity of TartuTartuEstonia
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research LimitedAucklandNew Zealand
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- Museu de Ciències Naturals de GranollersGranollersBarcelonaSpain
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- MTA‐DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research GroupDebrecenHungary
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- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
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- Insect Ecology GroupDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological SciencesUniversity of CanterburyChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Department of Ecology and TerritorySchool of Environmental and Rural StudiesPontificia Universidad JaverianaBogotaColombia
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- Naturhistorisches Museum BaselLeiter BiowissenschaftenBaselSwitzerland
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem ResearchBulgarian Academy of ScienceSofiaBulgaria
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- Division Forest, Nature, and LandscapeDepartment of Earth & Environmental SciencesKU LeuvenLeuvenBelgium
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- Museu Nacional de História Natural e da CiênciaBorboletário – Depart. ZoologiaLisboaPortugal
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- Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO)Universidad de AlicanteAlicanteSpain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Químico‐BiológicasUniversidad de las Américas PueblaCholulaMexico
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- Departamento de Gestión AgrariaUniversidad de Santiago de ChileSantiagoChile
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- Vietnam National Museum of NatureVietnam Academy of Science and TechnologyCau GiayHanoiVietnam
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- School of BiologyThe University of NottinghamUniversity ParkNottinghamUK
- School for Resource and Environmental StudiesFaculty of ManagementDalhousie UniversityHalifaxNSCanada
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- Key Laboratory of Protection and Development Utilization of Tropical Crop Germplasm Resource, Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture and Landscape AgricultureHainan UniversityHaikouChina
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- College of Life SciencesZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of BiologyJohn Carroll UniversityUniversity HeightsOHUSA
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- Biocentre GrindelUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
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- The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental SciencesThe University of AdelaideAdelaideSAAustralia
- Environmental Futures Research InstituteGriffith UniversityBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
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- Department of Environmental and Natural ResourcesPresbyterian University CollegeAkropong AkuapemGhana
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- Center for Environmental Sciences & EngineeringUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)University of AmsterdamGE AmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Animal EcologyJustus‐Liebig‐UniversityGiessenGermany
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- NERC Centre for Ecology & HydrologyCrowmarsh GiffordWallingfordUK
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- Institute of Biodiversity Science, School of Life SciencesFudan UniversityShanghaiChina
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- International Institute of Tropical ForestryUSDA Forest Service, Sabana Field Research StationLuquilloPRUSA
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTsukubaJapan
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of East AngliaNorwich Research ParkNorwichUK
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesKunmingChina
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- Department of Animal EcologyJustus‐Liebig‐UniversityGiessenGermany
- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and EvolutionMoscowRussia
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- Integrated Environmental Consultants Namibia (IECN)WindhoekNamibia
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- Guangdong Entomological Institute/South China Institute of Endangered AnimalsGuangzhouChina
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and EnvironmentResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and EnvironmentResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Computational Ecology and Environmental ScienceMicrosoft ResearchCambridgeUK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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Davies HF, McCarthy MA, Firth RSC, Woinarski JCZ, Gillespie GR, Andersen AN, Geyle HM, Nicholson E, Murphy BP. Top‐down control of species distributions: feral cats driving the regional extinction of a threatened rodent in northern Australia. DIVERS DISTRIB 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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- Hugh F. Davies
- Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group The University of Melbourne Parkville Melbourne Vic. 3010 Australia
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- Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group The University of Melbourne Parkville Melbourne Vic. 3010 Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Darwin NT 0909 Australia
- 360 Environmental West Leederville Perth WA 6007 Australia
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- Threatened Species Recovery Hub National Environmental Science Programme Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Darwin NT 0810 Australia
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- Flora and Fauna Division Department of Land Resource Management Berrimah NT 0820 Australia
- School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Parkville Melbourne Vic. 3010 Australia
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- CSIRO Land & Water Flagship Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre Winnellie NT 0822 Australia
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- Threatened Species Recovery Hub National Environmental Science Programme Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Darwin NT 0810 Australia
- Deakin University Burwood Melbourne Vic. 3125 Australia
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- Threatened Species Recovery Hub National Environmental Science Programme Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Darwin NT 0810 Australia
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Câmara T, Almeida WR, Tabarelli M, Andersen AN, Leal IR. Habitat fragmentation, EFN-bearing trees and ant communities: Ecological cascades in Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. AUSTRAL ECOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Talita Câmara
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife PE Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife PE Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife PE Brazil
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- CSIRO Land and Water; Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; Winnellie Australia
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife PE Brazil
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Gibb H, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Watson S, Photakis M, Abril S, Andersen AN, Angulo E, Armbrecht I, Arnan X, Baccaro FB, Bishop TR, Boulay R, Castracani C, Del Toro I, Delsinne T, Diaz M, Donoso DA, Enríquez ML, Fayle TM, Feener DH, Fitzpatrick MC, Gómez C, Grasso DA, Groc S, Heterick B, Hoffmann BD, Lach L, Lattke J, Leponce M, Lessard JP, Longino J, Lucky A, Majer J, Menke SB, Mezger D, Mori A, Munyai TC, Paknia O, Pearce-Duvet J, Pfeiffer M, Philpott SM, de Souza JLP, Tista M, Vasconcelos HL, Vonshak M, Parr CL. Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure. Proc Biol Sci 2016; 282:20150418. [PMID: 25994675 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Many studies have focused on the impacts of climate change on biological assemblages, yet little is known about how climate interacts with other major anthropogenic influences on biodiversity, such as habitat disturbance. Using a unique global database of 1128 local ant assemblages, we examined whether climate mediates the effects of habitat disturbance on assemblage structure at a global scale. Species richness and evenness were associated positively with temperature, and negatively with disturbance. However, the interaction among temperature, precipitation and disturbance shaped species richness and evenness. The effect was manifested through a failure of species richness to increase substantially with temperature in transformed habitats at low precipitation. At low precipitation levels, evenness increased with temperature in undisturbed sites, peaked at medium temperatures in disturbed sites and remained low in transformed sites. In warmer climates with lower rainfall, the effects of increasing disturbance on species richness and evenness were akin to decreases in temperature of up to 9°C. Anthropogenic disturbance and ongoing climate change may interact in complicated ways to shape the structure of assemblages, with hot, arid environments likely to be at greatest risk.
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- Heloise Gibb
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen Ø 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Dpt. Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad, Avda. Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja), Sevilla 41092, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle (Colombia), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya 08193, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
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- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte et Département, d'Aménagement du Territoire Université, François Rabelais de Tours, Tours 37200, France
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01366, USA
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Section of Biological Evaluation, Rue Vautier, 29, Brussels 1000, Belgium
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto, CP 1101608, Loja, Ecuador
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia and Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38400-902, Brazil
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Biology and Climate Change, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia
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- Museo Inst. Zoologia Agricola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 4579, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Section of Biological Evaluation, Rue Vautier, 29, Brussels 1000, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B-1R6
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, 970 Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620, USA
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Lake Forest College, 555 North Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA
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- Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Zoology, Division of Insects, Moreau Lab, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
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- Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, TiHo Hannover, Bünteweg 17d, Hannover 30559, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Ecology, National University of Mongolia, Baga toiruu 47, PO Box 377, Ulaanbaatar 210646, Mongolia
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- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Amazônicas-INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade-Cbio, Avenida André Araújo, 2936-Caixa Postal 2223, CEP 69080-971, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Av. Pará 1720, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38405-320, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK
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Nowrouzi S, Andersen AN, Macfadyen S, Staunton KM, VanDerWal J, Robson SKA. Ant Diversity and Distribution along Elevation Gradients in the Australian Wet Tropics: The Importance of Seasonal Moisture Stability. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0153420. [PMID: 27073848 PMCID: PMC4830544 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2015] [Accepted: 03/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The threat of anthropogenic climate change has seen a renewed focus on understanding contemporary patterns of species distribution. This is especially the case for the biota of tropical mountains, because tropical species often have particularly narrow elevational ranges and there are high levels of short-range endemism. Here we describe geographic patterns of ant diversity and distribution in the World Heritage-listed rainforests of the Australian Wet Tropics (AWT), revealing seasonal moisture stability to be an important environmental correlate of elevational patterns of species composition. We sampled ants in leaf litter, on the litter surface and on tree trunks at 26 sites from six subregions spanning five degrees of latitude and elevation ranges from 100–1,300 m. A total of 296 species from 63 genera were recorded. Species richness showed a slight peak at mid elevations, and did not vary significantly with latitude. Species composition varied substantially between subregions, and many species have highly localised distributions. There was very marked species turnover with elevation, with a particularly striking compositional disjunction between 600 m and 800 m at each subregion. This disjunction coincides with a strong environmental threshold of seasonal stability in moisture associated with cloud ‘stripping’. Our study therefore provides further support for climatic stability as a potential mechanism underlying patterns of diversity. The average height of orographic cloud layers is predicted to rise under global warming, and associated shifts in seasonal moisture stability may exacerbate biotic change caused by rising temperature alone.
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- Somayeh Nowrouzi
- Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, College of Marine and Ecosystem Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
- CSIRO Land & Water Flagship, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, College of Marine and Ecosystem Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, College of Marine and Ecosystem Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
- eResearch Centre, Division of Research and Innovation, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, College of Marine and Ecosystem Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
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Economo EP, Sarnat EM, Janda M, Clouse R, Klimov PB, Fischer G, Blanchard BD, Ramirez LN, Andersen AN, Berman M, Guénard B, Lucky A, Rabeling C, Wilson EO, Knowles LL. Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole. J Biogeogr 2015; 42:2289-2301. [PMID: 27660394 PMCID: PMC5014176 DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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AIM We sought to reconstruct the biogeographical structure and dynamics of a hyperdiverse ant genus, Pheidole, and to test several predictions of the taxon cycle hypothesis. Using large datasets on Pheidole geographical distributions and phylogeny, we (1) inferred patterns of biogeographical modularity (clusters of areas with similar faunal composition), (2) tested whether species in open habitats are more likely to be expanding their range beyond module boundaries, and (3) tested whether there is a bias of lineage flow from high- to low-diversity areas. LOCATION The Old World. METHODS We compiled and jointly analysed a comprehensive database of Pheidole geographical distributions, the ecological affinities of different species, and a multilocus phylogeny of the Old World radiation. We used network modularity methods to infer biogeographical structure in the genus and comparative methods to evaluate the hypotheses. RESULTS The network analysis identified eight biogeographical modules, and a suite of species with anomalous ranges that are statistically more likely to occur in open habitat, supporting the hypothesis that open habitats promote range expansion. Phylogenetic analysis shows evidence for a cascade pattern of colonization from Asia to New Guinea to the Pacific, but no 'upstream' colonization in the reverse direction. MAIN CONCLUSIONS The distributions of Pheidole lineages in the Old World are highly modular, with modules generally corresponding to biogeographical regions inferred in other groups of organisms. However, some lineages have expanded their ranges across module boundaries, and these species are more likely to be adapted to open habitats rather than interior forest. In addition, there is a cascade pattern of dispersal from higher to lower diversity areas during these range expansions. Our findings are consistent with the taxon cycle hypothesis, although they do not rule out alternative interpretations.
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- Evan P. Economo
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University1919‐1 TanchaOnna‐sonOkinawa904‐0495Japan
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of ZoologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of EntomologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana‐ChampaignChicagoILUSA
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- Biology CentreCzech Academy of SciencesČeské BudějoviceCzech Republic
- Department of BiologyUniversity of GuanajuatoGuanajuatoMexico
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- Department of Bioinformatics and GenomicsUniversity of North Carolina at CharlotteCharlotteNCUSA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of ZoologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
- Department of ZoologyTyumen State UniversityTyumenRussia
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University1919‐1 TanchaOnna‐sonOkinawa904‐0495Japan
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of ZoologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
- Committee on Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ChicagoChicagoILUSA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of ZoologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- CSIRO Land & Water FlagshipDarwinNTAustralia
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University1919‐1 TanchaOnna‐sonOkinawa904‐0495Japan
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- Department of Entomology & NematologyUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFLUSA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of ZoologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Laura C. Leal
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n Cidade Universitária 50670-901 Recife PE Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia; Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana; Av. Transnordestina, s/n Novo Horizonte 44036-900 Feira de Santana BA Brazil
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- CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; PMB 44 Winnellie NT 0822 Australia
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n Cidade Universitária 50670-901 Recife PE Brazil
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- Inara R. Leal
- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n Cidade Universitária 50670-901 Recife PE Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Av. Prof. Moraes Rego s/n Cidade Universitária 50670-901 Recife PE Brazil
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- CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre PMB 44; Winnellie NT 0822 Australia
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Clouse RM, Janda M, Blanchard B, Sharma P, Hoffmann BD, Andersen AN, Czekanski-Moir JE, Krushelnycky P, Rabeling C, Wilson EO, Economo EP, Sarnat EM, General DM, Alpert GD, Wheeler WC. Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae,Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas. Cladistics 2014; 31:424-437. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Ronald M. Clouse
- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; 9201 University City Blvd Charlotte NC 28223 USA
- Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th St. New York City NY 10024 USA
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- Biology Centre; Czech Academy of Sciences; Branisovska 31 370 05 Ceske Budejovice Czech Republic
- Museum of Comparative Zoology; Harvard University; 26 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Michigan; 2019 Kraus Natural Science Building Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th St. New York City NY 10024 USA
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- Department of Biology; Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Oklahoma; Norman OK 73019 USA
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; 3050 Maile Way Room 310 Honolulu HI 96822 USA
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology; Harvard University; 26 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology; Harvard University; 26 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; 1919-1 Tancha Onna-son Kunigami gun Okinawa Japan 904-0495
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- Department of Entomology; University of Illinois; 320 Morrill Hall 505 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana IL 61801 USA
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- University of the Philippines at Los Baños; Museum of Natural History; Los Baños 4031 Laguna Philippines
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology; Harvard University; 26 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th St. New York City NY 10024 USA
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Andersen AN, Ribbons RR, Pettit M, Parr CL. Burning for biodiversity: highly resilient ant communities respond only to strongly contrasting fire regimes in Australia's seasonal tropics. J Appl Ecol 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Alan N. Andersen
- CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; PMB 44 Winnellie NT 0822 Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; PMB 44 Winnellie NT 0822 Australia
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- Department of Earth, Ocean, and Ecological Sciences; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 3GP UK
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Jones TH, Blum MS, Andersen AN, Fales HM, Escoubas P. Novel 2-ethyl-5-alkylpyrrolidines in the venom of an australian ant of the genusMonomorium. J Chem Ecol 2013; 14:35-45. [PMID: 24276992 DOI: 10.1007/bf01022529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/1986] [Accepted: 12/31/1986] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Novel 2-ethyl-5-alkylpyrrolidines and their corresponding 1-pyrrolines have been identified as poison gland products from an unidentified Australian species ofMonomorium. The major alkaloids present in the venom of this ant aretrans-2-ethyl-5-undecylpyrrolidine andtrans-2-ethyl-5-(12-tridecen-1-yl)pyrrolidine. The position of the double bond in the latter was established from its dimethyl-disulfide adduct after the amine function had been protected, and the stereochemistry of the alkyl groups was determined by direct comparison with synthetic compounds. The corresponding 1-pyrrolines were also detected in varying amounts in this venom. The pyrrolidines and 1-pyrrolines possess considerable insecticidal activity when evaluated against termite workers. The alkaloidal venoms ofMonomorium appear to be an important factor contributing to the success of these small ants both as competitors and as predators.
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- T H Jones
- Laboratory of Chemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 20892, Bethesda, Maryland
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Radford IJ, Andersen AN, Graham G, Trauernicht C. The Fire Refuge Value of Patches of a Fire-Sensitive Tree in Fire-prone Savannas:Callitris intratropicain Northern Australia. Biotropica 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ian. J. Radford
- Department of Environment and Conservation; Parks and Conservation Executive Office; Lot 248 Ivanhoe Rd, PO Box 942; Kununurra; WA; 6743; Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; PMB 44; Winnellie; NT; 0822; Australia
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- Department of Environment and Conservation; Parks and Conservation Executive Office; Australia II Drive; Crawley; WA; 6009; Australia
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- School of Plant Science; University of Tasmania; Tasmania; Australia
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