Army ants are dominant social hunters of invertebrates and thereby play an integral role in
tropical ecosystems. They are defined by a suite of evolutionarily interrelated physiological …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000
described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …

Ants are prominent components of most terrestrial arthropod food webs, yet due to their
highly variable diet, the role ants play in arthropod communities can be difficult to resolve …

Army ants are among the top arthropod predators and considered keystone species in
tropical ecosystems. During daily mass raids with many thousand workers, army ants hunt …

We measured δ 15N values and inferred the trophic positions of 151 ground ant species
from four types of rain forests (alluvial, limestone, dipterocarp forest, and Kerangas) in …

Ant communities are generally extremely interactive, and competition between ant species
seems to be widespread. This characteristic of ant communities tends to produce a uniform …

The reproductive cycle of thelytokous colonies of Cerapachys biroi was investigated in
laboratory conditions. It included several stages, the duration of which was assessed by …

Understanding the spatial patterns of species distribution is essential to characterize the
structure of communities, to optimize species inventories and to evaluate the impact of biotic …

Contrasting theories have been proposed to explain the structure of ecological communities.
Here, we studied the impact of environmental factors and spatial patterns on ground …