The sight of land managers poring over ant checklists is a regular occurrence in Australia,
where ant monitoring has been successfully applied to a wide range of land‐use situations …

Threats to insect diversity range from habitat loss and invasive alien organisms to
environmental contamination and biological control. Many of the threats are synergistic, with …

1. Despite the fact that fire is considered an important disturbance in savannas across the
world and is used widely as a management tool in conservation areas, little is known about …

A functional group model of ant community composition has been widely used in Australia to
analyse biogeographical patterns of ant community structure and the responses of ant …

Fire is widely used for conservation management in the savannah landscapes of northern
Australia, yet there is considerable uncertainty over the ecological effects of different fire …

Abstract Aim In the Mediterranean Basin, the main forest communities vary in their ability to
recover after fire. In this study we analyse the effects of fire on ant communities occurring in …

The introduced tramp ant, Pheidole megacephala, is a well‐known pest of urban areas and
coastal dune ecosystems in eastern Australia. Until recently, establishment and spread of P …

The reliability of ants as bioindicators of ecosystem condition is dependent on the
consistency of their response to localised habitat characteristics, which may be modified by …

In 1985 new silvicultural prescriptions for managing Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in
southwest Western Australia came into operation. The most extreme logging treatment …

A study was carried out to determine the effect of single tree (Quercus ilex subsp, ballota)
shaded microhabitats on the community structure of ground-nesting ants in a semi-natural …