Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

Since their origin about 120 million years ago (Mya), ants have evolved to become the most
species-rich and ecologically diverse group of social insects (Grimaldi and Engel 2005; …

In the first year's data of the 10th Finnish National Forest Inventory (2005–2008) 533 active
and 178 abandoned ant mounds were found yielding 4.2 mounds ha-1. We found 11 …

Little is known about how anthropogenic changes in nature affect reproduction in social
insects such as ants. We studied the effects of clear-cutting on the production of sexual …

A challenge in applied ecology is understanding the responses of native species to roads,
which are ubiquitous drivers of environmental heterogeneity. While most studies highlight …

Adaptive management at its most basic level involves the continual incorporation of new
knowledge into a decision-making process to refine and improve project actions and …

Red wood ants support a diverse community of myrmecophiles in their nest mounds. Given
that nest mounds provide fairly constant and distinct habitat patches for myrmecophiles …

We examined whether the body size of mound building wood ant Formica aquilonia workers
is affected by forest clear-cutting in a before-after logging field study. Clear-cutting is …

Although species interactions are often proposed to be stronger at lower latitudes and
elevations, few studies have evaluated the mechanisms driving such patterns. In this study …