Reorganization of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic ant biodiversity after conversion to rubber plantation

Functional and phylogenetic approaches reveal the evolution of diversity in a hyper diverse biota

(2015) Bonnie B. Blaimer et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants

(2015) Tom M. Fayle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

New records of ant species from Yunnan, China

(2015) Cong Liu et al.   ZooKeys

Increasing Demand for Natural Rubber Necessitates a Robust Sustainability Initiative to Mitigate Impacts on Tropical Biodiversity

(2015) Eleanor Warren-Thomas et al.   Conservation Letters

Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

(2015) Robert M. Ewers et al.   Nature Communications

Behavioral Diversity of Predatory Arboreal Ants in Coffee Agroecosystems

(2015) S. M. Philpott et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Trait Beta Diversity in South American Hummingbirds

(2014) Ben G. Weinstein et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Forest fragment spatial distribution matters for tropical tree conservation

(2014) Jia-Jia Liu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

(2014) Seán G Brady et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Does morphology predict trophic position and habitat use of ant species and assemblages?

(2014) H. Gibb et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ecological filtering or random extinction? Beta-diversity patterns and the importance of niche-based and neutral processes following habitat loss

(2014) Thomas Püttker et al.   OIKOS

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2014) PHILIP S. WARD et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Niche filtering rather than partitioning shapes the structure of temperate forest ant communities

(2013) David Fowler et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Revisiting the Ants of Melanesia and the Taxon Cycle: Historical and Human-Mediated Invasions of a Tropical Archipelago

(2012) Evan P. Economo et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

(2012) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Unraveling the drivers of community dissimilarity and species extinction in fragmented landscapes

(2012) Cristina Banks-Leite et al.   ECOLOGY

Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales

(2012) Daniel S. Karp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

(2012) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Shuffling Leaf Litter Samples Produces More Accurate and Precise Snapshots of Terrestrial Arthropod Community Composition

(2012) Benoit Guénard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity

(2011) N. G. Swenson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The impact of rubber plantations on the diversity and activity of understorey insectivorous bats in southern Thailand

(2011) Phansamai Phommexay et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ant Morphology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Special Reference to the Poneromorph Subfamilies

(2011) Roberto A. Keller   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Impact of rubber plantation on carabid beetle communities and species distribution in a changing tropical landscape (southern Yunnan, China)

(2011) Ling-Zeng Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Phylogenetic Beta Diversity Metrics, Trait Evolution and Inferring the Functional Beta Diversity of Communities

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson   PLoS One

A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies

(2011) Tyler S. Kuhn et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

(2011) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   Ecosphere

Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter

(2010) Tom M. Fayle et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity

(2010) Antonin Machac et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

(2010) Jochen H. Bihn et al.   ECOLOGY

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Rubber Juggernaut

(2009) A. D. Ziegler et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity Loss in Latin American Coffee Landscapes: Review of the Evidence on Ants, Birds, and Trees

(2008) STACY M. PHILPOTT et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

(2008) Maud Mouchet et al.   OIKOS