Nest microhabitats and tree size mediate shifts in ant community structure across elevation in tropical rainforest canopiesC-scorecommunity assemblycompetitive interactionselevational gradientshabitat complexityniche-partitioningDeclines or mid-elevation peaks in invertebrate diversity with elevation are often ...
In thisessay, we will explore the remarkable world of ants, delving into their intricate social structures, their ingenious engineering feats, and their remarkable adaptations to their environment. At the heart of the ant's success lies their highly organized social structure. Ants live in colonies...
Ant genomes: tools to study biological and social complexity Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae; see Glossary) comprise a dominant component of most terrestrial habitats. The more than 14000 described species (http://www.antweb.org) show an enormous diversity in life-history features, ecological and beh...
Unlike any other group of animals, all ant species are social: individual ants share the food they gather with their nestmates and as a consequence they must repeatedly leave their nest to find food and then return home with it. These back-and-forth foraging trips have been studied for abou...
their wounds, by licking and grooming the wound during the first three hours after injury7. When the wounds of injured workers are not treated by nestmates, 90% of the injured workers die within 24 h after injury7, but the mechanisms behind these treatments are unknown. The aim of this...
In this paper, we investigate the use of Musket to create a parallel GPU version of ACO in order to understand and compare how it relates to a low-level implementation in terms of performance and development complexity. The identification of positive and negative sides of using the general ...
The experiment described was originally executed using a laboratory colony of Argentine ants (Iridomyrmex humilis). It is known that these ants deposit pheromone both when leaving and when returning to the nest [80]. 5. In the ACO literature, this is often calleddifferential path lengtheffect....
Femur length has also been shown to be invariant or even positively correlated with habitat complexity (Guilherme et al., 2019; Parr et al., 2003). Eye size is also correlated both with habitat and with trophic level; ants living in subterranean or leaf litter habitats exhibit smaller eyes ...
In grasslands, ants nest essentially belowground, where direct colony mortality by fires is negligible (Arnan et al., 2006; Debano, 2000). Nevertheless, ant communities are commonly affected by fire-induced habitat changes, such as in structure, microclimate, and resource availability (Andersen, ...
Although this study has shown some effects of mandible shape variation on stress distribution, it is important to note that the approach here presented does not fully capture the complexity of the mandible cuticle's material properties. Insects have a gradient of material properties along the layers...