Arthropods and fire within the biologically diverse longleaf pine ecosystem

TN Sheehan, KD Klepzig - Annals of the Entomological Society …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The longleaf pine Pinus palustris Miller (Pinales: Pinaceae) ecosystem once covered as
many as 37 million hectares across the southeastern United States. Through fire …

The temporality of shell-bearing landscapes at Crystal River, Florida

TJ Pluckhahn, VD Thompson, A Cherkinsky - Journal of Anthropological …, 2015 - Elsevier
We employ a landscape perspective to the shell middens at Crystal River (8CI1) and
Roberts Island (8CI41), Woodland period (ca. 1000 BC to AD 1000) mound centers on the …

Potential distribution of six North American higher-attine fungus-farming ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species

SF Senula, JT Scavetta, JA Banta… - Journal of Insect …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Ants are among the most successful insects in Earth's evolutionary history. However, there is
a lack of knowledge regarding range-limiting factors that may influence their distribution. The …

Changes in Ground‐dwelling Ant Functional Diversity are Correlated with Water‐Table Level in an Amazonian Terra Firme Forest

FB Baccaro, IF Rocha, BEG del Aguila, J Schietti… - Biotropica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Areas with shallow water tables comprise a significant portion of tropical forests and have
distinct forest structure and plant‐assemblage composition. It is not clear, however, how the …

Integration of global fossil and modern biodiversity data reveals dynamism and stasis in ant macroecological patterns

B Guénard, V Perrichot… - Journal of Biogeography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigate the dynamics of ant biodiversity patterns and community structure from
the Eocene until the present. Our goal is to empirically test hypotheses regarding the …

Quantification of supercolonial traits in the yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes

BD Hoffmann - Journal of Insect Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Supercoloniality is a social structure displayed by many invasive ant species, but there has
been surprisingly little research quantifying the extent to which individual species display …

Woodland-period mound building as historical tradition: Dating the mounds and monuments at Crystal River (8CI1)

TJ Pluckhahn, VD Thompson - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in monumental architecture are fundamental to the theory and practice of
archaeology in eastern North America, yet we have rarely examined these changes at …

Richness and composition of ground-dwelling ants in tropical rainforest and surrounding landscapes in the Colombian inter-Andean valley

R Achury, AV Suarez - Neotropical Entomology, 2018 - Springer
Tropical rainforests are characterized by having high structural complexity, stratification, and
species diversity. In Colombia, tropical rainforests are critically endangered with only 24% of …

Gone to Texas: phylogeography of two Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species along the southeastern coastal plain of North America

JN Seal, L Brown, C Ontiveros… - Biological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Ants are widely recognized as ecologically important members of many low-to mid-latitude
ecosystems. Surprisingly, there is very little phylogeographical information on ants at …

Biomantling and Bioturbation by Colonies of the Florida Harvester Ant, Pogonomyrmex badius

WR Tschinkel - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In much of the world, soil-nesting ants are among the leading agents of biomantling and
bioturbation, depositing excavated soil on the surface or in underground chambers …