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The effects of prescribed burning on epigaeic ant communities in eucalypt forest of South Australia
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This paper investigated the response and recovery of epigaeic ant communities in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia following prescribed burning by conducting pitfall trapping over three consecutive years (December 2006-2008) in recently burnt (prescribed burnt in spring seasons of 2004-2006) and unburnt vegetation (last burnt by wildfire in 1983).About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2012-05-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species richness & Prescribed burn.read more
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Responses of ant communities to disturbance: Five principles for understanding the disturbance dynamics of a globally dominant faunal group.
TL;DR: Five principles for understanding the disturbance dynamics of ants, a globally dominant faunal group that is widely used as bioindicators in land management, are proposed and appear to have wide applicability to other taxa.
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Biodiversity responses to land‐use and restoration in a global biodiversity hotspot : ant communities in Brazilian Cerrado
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Ant community structure and response to disturbances on coastal dunes of Gulf of Mexico
Xuan Chen,Benjamin J. Adams,Benjamin J. Adams,Cody Bergeron,Alexander Sabo,Linda M. Hooper-Bùi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined ant community composition and its relationship with vegetation structure on dunes, and used ants as indicators to reveal the influence of anthropogenic disturbances on these habitats.
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Multiphase myrmecochory: the roles of different ant species and effects of fire.
TL;DR: It is shown that myrmecochory can involve more than one dispersal phase and that fire indirectly influences myrmicochory by altering the abundances of seed-dispersing ants.
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Ants of the Caatinga: Diversity, Biogeography, and Functional Responses to Anthropogenic Disturbance and Climate Change
Inara R. Leal,José Domingos Ribeiro-Neto,José Domingos Ribeiro-Neto,Xavier Arnan,Fernanda M. P. Oliveira,Gabriela B. Arcoverde,Rodrigo M. Feitosa,Alan N. Andersen +7 more
TL;DR: The Caatinga ant fauna appears to represent an impoverished subset of the Cerrado’s fauna, and significant changes in ant taxonomic and functional composition in response to human disturbance are observed, with a predictable winner–loser replacement.
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vegan: Community Ecology Package
Jari Oksanen,F. Guillaume Blanchet,Roeland Kindt,Pierre Legendre,Peter R. Minchin,Robert B. O'Hara,Gavin Simpson,Péter Sólymos,M. Henry H. Stevens,Helene H. Wagner +9 more
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Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness
TL;DR: A series of common pitfalls in quantifying and comparing taxon richness are surveyed, including category‐subcategory ratios (species-to-genus and species-toindividual ratios) and rarefaction methods, which allow for meaningful standardization and comparison of datasets.
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The Ecology of Fire
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce fire ecology and community responses to fire, and present an approach to population studies of plants and animals in the presence of fire, including plant and animal populations.
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Ant biodiversity and its relationship to ecosystem functioning: a review
TL;DR: The role of ants in ecosystems is discussed in this article, mainly from the perspective of the effects of ground-dwelling ants on soil processes and function, emphasizing their role as ecosystem engineers.
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Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research.
Martin Heil,Doyle McKey +1 more
TL;DR: Protective ant-plant interactions, important in both temperate and tropical communities, are increasingly used to study a wide range of phenomena of general interest and offer rich material for studying ant social evolution in novel contexts.