Community ecology has a clear need to develop an understanding of the structure and
dynamics of natural communities. Interspecific competition is considered key in structuring …

Human impact on boreal forests has been extensive during a fairly short evolutionary time
scale. Character species of boreal forests, such as Formica ants, may face loss of genetic …

Heterogeneity in species assemblages of forest‐floor arthropods—carabid beetles, ants and
spiders—within and between different forest age classes was studied in the southern …

Community assembly rules specify patterns of species co‐occurrence and morphology
dictated by interspecific competition. We collected data on the occurrence of ground …

I studied carabid-beetle assemblages in boreal spruce-forest stands representing early
secondary succession, produced by three different logging methods, in central Finland in …

I tested the hypothesis that the distribution of territorial wood-ant species (Formica rufa
group) of different colony structure and dispersal strategy relate differently to the dynamics …

Abstract The savannas of South America support a relatively diverse ant fauna, but little is
known about the factors that influence the structure and dynamics of these assemblages. In …

We reconstructed a molecular phylogeny of the ant genus Myrmica, tested reciprocal
monophyly of the Nearctic and Palearctic representatives, and inferred social parasite–host …

We collected ants in ten replicated habitat types of an urban island and described their
assemblages using Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling and Multivariate Regression …

In the first year's data of the 10th Finnish National Forest Inventory (2005–2008) 533 active
and 178 abandoned ant mounds were found yielding 4.2 mounds ha-1. We found 11 …