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Climate change may boost the invasion of the Asian needle ant by Bertelsmeier, Cleo, Guénard, Benoît, Courchamp, Franck

“…Following its introduction from Asia to the USA, the Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis) is rapidly spreading into a wide range of habitats with great…”
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Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness by Dunn, Robert R, Agosti, Donat, Andersen, Alan N, Arnan, Xavier, Bruhl, Carsten A, Cerdá, Xim, Ellison, Aaron M, Fisher, Brian L, Fitzpatrick, Matthew C, Gibb, Heloise, Gotelli, Nicholas J, Gove, Aaron D, Guenard, Benoit, Janda, Milan, Kaspari, Michael, Laurent, Edward J, Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Longino, John T, Majer, Jonathan D, Menke, Sean B, McGlynn, Terrence P, Parr, Catherine L, Philpott, Stacy M, Pfeiffer, Martin, Retana, Javier, Suarez, Andrew V, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L, Weiser, Michael D, Sanders, Nathan J

“…Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude and species richness is often asymmetrical between the northern…”
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The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems by Barlow, Jos, França, Filipe, Gardner, Toby A., Hicks, Christina C., Lennox, Gareth D., Berenguer, Erika, Castello, Leandro, Economo, Evan P., Ferreira, Joice, Guénard, Benoit, Gontijo Leal, Cecília, Isaac, Victoria, Lees, Alexander C., Parr, Catherine L., Wilson, Shaun K., Young, Paul J., Graham, Nicholas A. J.

“…The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth’s biodiversity: their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all…”
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Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants by Economo, Evan P., Narula, Nitish, Friedman, Nicholas R., Weiser, Michael D., Guénard, Benoit

“…The latitudinal diversity gradient—the tendency for more species to occur toward the equator—is the dominant pattern of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms…”
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Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods by Wong, Mark K. L., Guénard, Benoit, Lewis, Owen T.

“…ABSTRACT In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels…”
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The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth by Schultheiss, Patrick, Nooten, Sabine S, Wang, Runxi, Wong, Mark K L, Brassard, François, Guénard, Benoit

“…Knowledge on the distribution and abundance of organisms is fundamental to understanding their roles within ecosystems and their ecological importance for…”
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Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide by Moser, Dietmar, Lenzner, Bernd, Weigelt, Patrick, Dawson, Wayne, Kreft, Holger, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, van Kleunen, Mark, Winter, Marten, Capinha, César, Cassey, Phillip, Dullinger, Stefan, Economo, Evan P., García-Díaz, Pablo, Guénard, Benoit, Hofhansl, Florian, Mang, Thomas, Seebens, Hanno, Essl, Franz

“…One of the best-known general patterns in island biogeography is the species–isolation relationship (SIR), a decrease in the number of native species with…”
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Evaluating the conservation value of sacred forests for ant taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in highly degraded landscapes by Nooten, Sabine S., Lee, Roger H., Guénard, Benoit

“…Land use changes and accelerating deforestation rates impact biodiversity on a global scale. While it is well established that the loss of primary forests is…”
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Ant communities in disturbed subtropical landscapes: is climate more important than stochastic processes? by Nooten, Sabine S., Guénard, Benoit

“…Functional trait-based approaches have provided advances in the understanding of community assembly rules. Broad generalisations remain, however, limited due…”
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Ecological and socio-economic impacts of the red import fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), on urban agricultural ecosystems by Chan, Kin Ho, Guénard, Benoit

“…The agricultural impacts of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren 1972, have been well studied in North America, but have received less emphasis…”
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An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) by Bharti, Himender, Guénard, Benoit, Bharti, Meenakshi, Economo, Evan P

“…As one of the 17 megadiverse countries of the world and with four biodiversity hotspots represented in its borders, India is home to an impressive diversity of…”
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The cryptic impacts of invasion: functional homogenization of tropical ant communities by invasive fire ants by Wong, Mark K. L., Guénard, Benoit, Lewis, Owen T.

“…The diversity and distribution of traits in an ecological community shapes its responses to change and the ecosystem processes it modulates. This ‘functional…”
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Tracing the rise of ants - out of the ground by Lucky, Andrea, Trautwein, Michelle D, Guénard, Benoit S, Weiser, Michael D, Dunn, Robert R

“…The evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is increasingly well-understood due to recent phylogenetic analyses, along with estimates of divergence times…”
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Development of a new apparatus to partition ant body size reveals their respective functional role within ant communities by Bogar, Taylor A., Nooten, Sabine S., Guénard, Benoit

“…The rapid decline of biodiversity is directly threatening the maintenance of important ecosystem processes. Yet, biodiversity loss is not homogeneous, with…”
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A large‐scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological and morphological drivers of sampling bias by Andrade‐Silva, Joudellys, Baccaro, Fabrício B., Prado, Lívia P., Guénard, Benoit, Warren, Dan L., Kass, Jamie M., Economo, Evan P., Silva, Rogério R.

“…Tropical ecosystems are often biodiversity hotspots, and invertebrates represent the main underrepresented component of diversity in large‐scale analyses. This…”
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The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide by Liu, Daijun, Semenchuk, Philipp, Essl, Franz, Lenzner, Bernd, Moser, Dietmar, Blackburn, Tim M., Cassey, Phillip, Biancolini, Dino, Capinha, César, Dawson, Wayne, Dyer, Ellie E., Guénard, Benoit, Economo, Evan P., Kreft, Holger, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, van Kleunen, Mark, Nentwig, Wolfgang, Rondinini, Carlo, Seebens, Hanno, Weigelt, Patrick, Winter, Marten, Purvis, Andy, Dullinger, Stefan

“…While the regional distribution of non-native species is increasingly well documented for some taxa, global analyses of non-native species in local assemblages…”
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Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat by Guénard, Benoit, Weiser, Michael D, Dunn, Robert R

“…Most of the described and probably undescribed species on Earth are insects. Global models of species diversity rarely focus on insects and none attempt to…”
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GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database by Liu, Cong, Economo, Evan P., Guénard, Benoit

“…Island systems are known to harbor disproportionate amounts of geographically restricted biodiversity and to experience high rates of species loss, and they…”
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The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants by Wong, Mark K.L., Economo, Evan P., Guénard, Benoit

“…Many alien species are neither cultivated nor traded but spread unintentionally, and their global movements, capacities to invade ecosystems, and…”
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Global biogeographic regions for ants have complex relationships with those for plants and tetrapods by Wang, Runxi, Kass, Jamie M., Chaudhary, Chhaya, Economo, Evan P., Guénard, Benoit

“…On a global scale, biodiversity is geographically structured into regions of biotic similarity. Delineating these regions has been mostly targeted for…”
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