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Read more about the article Beta diversity of montane ants
View up the valley from 1800 m asl. (Photo credit: Tom Bishop)
2015 / News

Beta diversity of montane ants

A recent study by C·I·B and University of Liverpool student Tom Bishop and supervisors Mark Robsertson, Berndt Janse van Rensburg and Catherine Parr has asked how the composition of ant groupings changes across environmental gradients.

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29 October 2015
Read more about the article Global distribution of the Argentine ant under the spotlight
Argentine ants tending scale insects on an orange tree in suburban California (Photo by Alex Wild).
2011 / Highlighted papers

Global distribution of the Argentine ant under the spotlight

Because of the numerous threats posed by invasive species to natural ecosystems, a major goal of invasion biology is to understand the factors explaining the distribution of species worldwide. Despite the many efforts at local and regional scales to predict areas vulnerable to invasion, the relative roles of biotic and abiotic conditions on the global distribution of species are still rather poorly understood.

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25 January 2011