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📰Published📰 When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants🐜 buff.ly/3UpczpI 🧪🌍

When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants

Mark K. L. Wong, Yuet Him Choi, François Brassard, Chi Man Leong, Toby P. N. Tsang, Owen T. Lewis, Benoit Guénard This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can…

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Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems? Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community assembly while competitive trait hierarchies shape colony performance in experimental mesocosms

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Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems? Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community assembly while competitive trait hierarchies shape colony performance in experimental mesocosms

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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New paper in #BiologicalConservation: Artificial light at night has surprisingly limited effects on ant communities in a field experiment💡🐜 Research by fantastic students I had the pleasure of supervising at UWA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ClimateChange can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... #invasivespecies #ants

With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments

Aim Thousands of non-native species have established populations and spread in outdoor environments (i.e., Naturalised), yet some populations or species only occur indoors, potentially due to unsuit...

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Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience

New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity | Biology Letters

The writings of naturalists from two centuries past are brimming with accounts of the stark differences in the kinds and numbers of organisms encountered during the day and night as well as between the tropical and temperate zones. However, only recently ...

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New preprint: Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

New preprint: Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... A fun study in a unique ecosystem that never made it to my DPhil thesis but is finally(!) written up

It happens frequently. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms

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4/ 🧩 Fig. 1: Human Pressure > Climate & Geography Our first key finding: Human pressure (as in human footprint) outweighs climate and geography, being responsible for 21.5% of species turnover and 20.6% of trait turnover. Human activity reshapes biodiversity far beyond natural gradients. 🏙️🌾🌍

Check out our new preprint: Human pressure homogenises #species and #traits globally

Caio Graco-Roza@gracoroza.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 We just published our latest work: "Human pressure homogenises species and traits globally". 🌍🦋🪴 Dive into the findings below or check out the preprint here: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5395446/v1. A 🧵👇

Hello friends old and new, I’m an #ecologist and #entomologist interested in #traits and #invasions and #community and #macroecology. I have an inordinate fondness for #ants, the movers and shakers of ecosystems. Looking forward to connecting! 🌤️