Ants are widely used as bioindicators in environmental assessment in Australia, partly
because the responses of ant communities to disturbance are relatively well understood. In …

Globally increasing rates of mine site discontinuations are resulting in the need for
immediate implementation of effective conservation and management strategies. Surveying …

Summary 1 The indicator qualities of terrestrial invertebrates are widely recognized in the
context of detecting ecological change associated with human land‐use. However, the use …

Ants are increasingly being recognized as useful tools for land managers to monitor
ecosystem conditions. However, despite an abundance of studies on ant responses to both …

Aunque los orígenes de las hormigas (cuándo, dónde y cómo) sean misterios que nunca
podremos resolver, lo cierto es que hace unos 100 millones de años ya existían hormigas …

Ecological patterns and processes are characteristically scale dependent, and research
findings often cannot be translated easily from one scale to another. Conservation biology is …

We investigated responses of ant communities to habitat complexity, with the aim of
assessing complexity as a useful surrogate for ant species diversity. We used pitfall traps to …

La posibilidad de encuadrar a los invertebrados en categorías funcionales transforma a este
grupo de organismos particularmente importante en la evaluación del estado y condición …

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 …

Taken literally, the aim of biodiversity monitoring is to track changes in the biological integrity
of ecosystems. Given the overwhelmingly dominant contribution of invertebrates to …