GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments

(2016) Tom R. Bishop et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2015) Bonnie B. Blaimer et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Contrasting species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages

(2015) Tom R. Bishop et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure

(2015) H. Gibb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices

(2015) V. Gagic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Keeping cool: Enhanced optical reflection and radiative heat dissipation in Saharan silver ants

(2015) N. N. Shi et al.   SCIENCE

Ant functional responses along environmental gradients

(2014) Xavier Arnan et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) H. Gibb et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ecosystem-Wide Morphological Structure of Leaf-Litter Ant Communities along a Tropical Latitudinal Gradient

(2014) Rogério R. Silva et al.   PLoS One

A Thesaurus for Soil Invertebrate Trait-Based Approaches

(2014) Benjamin Pey et al.   PLoS One

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2014) C. Lamanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

(2014) Dirk Zeuss et al.   Nature Communications

The fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

(2014) Alexandra M. Brown et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

microclim: Global estimates of hourly microclimate based on long-term monthly climate averages

(2014) Michael R Kearney et al.   Scientific Data

Carabids.org - a dynamic online database of ground beetle species traits (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

(2013) Katharina Homburg et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Patterns of bird functional diversity on land-bridge island fragments

(2013) Zhifeng Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Restoration of trophic structure in an assemblage of omnivores, considering a revegetation chronosequence

(2013) Heloise Gibb et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements?

(2013) Verena Cordlandwehr et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Does Structural Complexity Determine the Morphology of Assemblages? An Experimental Test on Three Continents

(2013) Heloise Gibb et al.   PLoS One

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trait-dependent declines of species following conversion of rain forest to oil palm plantations

(2012) Michael J. M. Senior et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A continental-scale analysis of fish assemblage functional structure in European rivers

(2012) Maxime Logez et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: evidence from 51 grassland species in experimental monocultures

(2012) Jessy Loranger et al.   ECOLOGY

A physiological trait-based approach to predicting the responses of species to experimental climate warming

(2012) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

(2012) Andrew Siefert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assembling an ant community: species functional traits reflect environmental filtering

(2012) Philipp T. Wiescher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat

(2012) B. Guenard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Color-Pattern Evolution in Response to Environmental Stress in Butterflies

(2012) Atsuki Hiyama et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Leg allometry in ants: Extreme long-leggedness in thermophilic species

(2011) Stefan Sommer et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Morphological traits as predictors of diet and microhabitat use in a diverse beetle assemblage

(2011) PHILIP S. BARTON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

(2011) Clinton N. Jenkins et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

(2011) Sean M. McMahon et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships

(2010) M. D. Weiser et al.   Biology Letters

Morphological patterns and community organization in leaf-litter ant assemblages

(2010) Rogério R. Silva et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

(2010) Jochen H. Bihn et al.   ECOLOGY

Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

(2009) Robert R. Dunn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Correlated trait responses to multiple selection pressures in larval amphibians reveal conflict avoidance strategies

(2009) TIFFANY S. GARCIA et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS