Ant ecology [online resource] / edited by Lori Lach, Catherine L. Parr and Kirsti L. Abbott.

Oxford scholarship online biology

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-383) and index.

Foreword / Edward O. Wilson -- Taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution / Philip S. Ward. Applications of taxonomy : why should we name ants? / Philip S. Ward. How to identify ants / Brian L. Fisher -- Biogeography / Brian L. Fisher. The remarkable rediscovery of the dinosaur ant, Nothomyrmecia macrops / Robert W. Taylor -- Geographic gradients / Robert R. Dunn ... [et al.]. Field techniques for sampling ants / Brandon Bestelmeyer and Leticia Rios Casanova. The emergence and utility of online global ant databases / Nathan J. Sanders -- Ant conservation : current status and a call to action / Leeanne E. Alonso. Ants in museums / Ted R. Schultz -- Competition and the role of dominant ants / Catherine L. Parr and Heloise Gibb. Defining dominance / Catherine L. Parr and Heloise Gibb. Co-occurrence analyses : what are they and how do they work? / Heloise Gibb and Catherine L. Parr -- Ants as mutualists / Joshua Ness, Kailen Mooney, and Lori Lach. 'Berry' ants : an eye-popping symbiosis from the rainforest canopy / Stephen P. Yanoviak -- Food and shelter : how resources influence ant ecology / Nico Blüthgen and Heike Feldhaar. Stable isotopes in the study of ant diets / Kailen Mooney and Chadwick V. Tillberg. Ants as biological-control agents in the horticultural industry / Renkang Peng and Keith Christian -- Ant diversity and function in disturbed and changing habitats / Stacy M. Philpott ... [et al.]. Using ants as indicators of ecosystem change / Alan N. Andersen. Functional groups in ant community ecology / Alan N. Andersen -- Colonial reproduction and life histories / Christian Peeters and Mathieu Molet. Antimicrobial defences in ants : pure and applied science / Andrew J. Beattie -- Colony structure / Florian M. Steiner, Ross H. Crozier, and Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner. Ants in the intertidal zone : colony and behavioural adaptations for survival / Simon Robson -- Nestmate recognition / Patrizia d'Ettorre and Alain Lenoir. Recognition between different species : natural and artificial mixed colonies of ants / Christine Errard -- Foraging and defence strategies / Anna Dornhaus and Scott Powell. Trap-jaw ants / Andrew V. Suarez and Joseph C. Spagna. The directed aerial descent of arboreal ants / Stephen P. Yanoviak -- Biogeographic and taxonomic patterns of introduced ants / Andrew V. Suarez, Terrence P. McGlynn and Neil D. Tsutsui. Preventing the international spread of invasive ants through implementation of offshore biosecurity risk management policy / Simon O'Connor and Grant P. Weston -- Invasion processes and causes of success / Paul D. Krushelnycky, David A. Holway, and Edward G. LeBrun. The ecological consequences of cooperative behaviour among workers from different nests / Edward G. LeBrun -- Consequences of ant invasions / Lori Lach and Linda M. Hooper-Bùi. Invasional meltdown : do invasive ants facilitate secondary invasions? / Dennis J. O'Dowd and Peter T. Green -- Invasive ant management / Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Kirsti L. Abbott, and Peter Davis. Active adaptive management for invasive ant management / Benjamin D. Hoffmann and Kirsti L. Abbott -- Synthesis and perspectives.

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