Ants of Brazil: an overview based on 50 years of diversity studies

Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country

(2022) F. A. Schmidt et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Data integration enables global biodiversity synthesis

(2021) J. Mason Heberling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Taxonomic and functional approaches reveal different responses of ant assemblages to land-use changes

(2021) Ananza M. Rabello et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Sistemática y diversidad de las hormigas neotropicales

(2021) Fernando Fernandez et al.   REVISTA COLOMBIANA DE ENTOMOLOGIA

Head and mandible shapes are highly integrated yet represent two distinct modules within and among worker subcastes of the ant genus Pheidole

(2021) Alexandre Casadei‐Ferreira et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

(2021) Mario R. Moura et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Patterns of Ant Diversity in the Natural Grasslands of Southern Brazil

(2021) Weslly Franco et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ants of the State of Pará, Brazil: a historical and comprehensive dataset of a key biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon Basin

(2021) EMÍLIA ZOPPAS DE ALBUQUERQUE et al.   ZOOTAXA

ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

(2021) Rogério R. Silva et al.   ECOLOGY

The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps

(2020) Luciana Elizalde et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

How to prioritize areas for new ant surveys? Integrating historical data on species occurrence records and habitat loss

(2020) Raquel Divieso et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Peace, sweet peace: ants become less aggressive when carbohydrates abound

(2020) Henrique D. Chinarelli et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture

(2019) Scott E. Solomon et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana

(2019) WESLLY FRANCO et al.   ZOOTAXA

Variation in the production of plant tissues bearing extrafloral nectaries explains temporal patterns of ant attendance in Amazonian understorey plants

(2019) Anselmo Nogueira et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Revision of the Fire Ants of the Solenopsis saevissima Species-Group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2018) James P. Pitts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Two new species of Leptogenys from southern Brazil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2018) ROMÁN A. LÓPEZ-MUÑOZ et al.   ZOOTAXA

Effectiveness of genera as a higher-taxon substitute for species in ant biodiversity analyses is not affected by sampling technique

(2018) Jorge L. P. Souza et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

FAUNA DE FORMIGAS EM ÁREAS DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE DE USINA HIDROELÉTRICA

(2018) Junir Antônio Lutinski et al.   CIENCIA FLORESTAL

Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics

(2018) Marek L Borowiec   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Neotropical savanna ants show a reversed latitudinal gradient of species richness, with climatic drivers reflecting the forest origin of the fauna

(2017) Heraldo L. Vasconcelos et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global biodiversity loss from tropical deforestation

(2017) Xingli Giam   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ground-Dwelling and Vegetation Ant Fauna in Southern Brazilian Grasslands

(2017) William Dröse et al.   SOCIOBIOLOGY

Taxonomic perils and pitfalls of dataset assembly in ecology: a case study of the naturalized Asteraceae in Australia

(2017) Brad R. Murray et al.   NeoBiota

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga

(2016) José Domingos Ribeiro-Neto et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance as a secondary driver of ant community structure: interactions with soil type in Brazilian Caatinga

(2016) FERNANDA M. P. OLIVEIRA et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants

(2015) Bonnie B. Blaimer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Taxonomic sufficiency and indicator taxa reduce sampling costs and increase monitoring effectiveness for ants

(2015) Jorge Luiz Pereira Souza et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The diversity of diversity studies: retrospectives and future directions

(2015) Christopher J. Lortie et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evaluating sampling sufficiency and the use of surrogates for assessing ant diversity in a Neotropical biodiversity hotspot

(2014) Heraldo L. Vasconcelos et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Senescent stem-galls in trees of Eremanthus erythropappus as a resource for arboreal ants

(2014) Maria Fernanda B. de Almeida et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA

The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior

(2014) C.A. SCHMIDT et al.   ZOOTAXA

Trade-offs between complementarity and redundancy in the use of different sampling techniques for ground-dwelling ant assemblages

(2012) Jorge Luiz Pereira de Souza et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Changes in Size of Deforested Patches in the Brazilian Amazon

(2012) ISABEL M. D. ROSA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

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

Species Diversity of Myrmecofauna and Araneofauna Associated with Agroecosystem and Forest Fragments and their Interaction with Carabidae and Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)

(2011) Gianni Queiroz Haddad et al.   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

Community-level interactions and functional ecology of major workers in the hyperdiverse ground-foraging Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Amazonian Ecuador

(2010) A. L. Mertl et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Morphospecies and Taxonomic Species Comparison for Hymenoptera

(2010) José G. B. Derraik et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Error Cascades in the Biological Sciences: The Unwanted Consequences of Using Bad Taxonomy in Ecology

(2008) Alejandro Bortolus   AMBIO

Ecological Stoichiometry along a Gradient of Forest Succession: Bait Preferences of Litter Ants

(2008) Jochen H. Bihn et al.   BIOTROPICA

Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution

(2008) C. Rabeling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA