Ants are widely distributed in both tropics and temperate regions at different altitudes. They
are both scavengers and predators, and serve as indicators of climate change at micro and …

Forested tropical landscapes around the world are being extensively logged and converted
to agriculture, with serious consequences for biodiversity and potentially ecosystem …

Wet grasslands of nature conservation importance have been maintained for centuries by
agricultural management such as grazing and mowing for hay, but are now threatened by …

Landscape context and contrast are major features of transformed landscapes. These
concepts are largely described in terms of vegetation and land use, and are rarely used on …

Aim We investigate the dynamics of ant biodiversity patterns and community structure from
the Eocene until the present. Our goal is to empirically test hypotheses regarding the …

Significant proportion of crop lands have been abandoned as management strategies have
changed in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decades. The study of insect versus …

We refer on the impact of selected management practices and management cessation on
ant communities in sub-montane cultural landscape in Slovakia. The research was …

In 2012, in the south-eastern part of Poland, a study was carried out on former farmland, not
used for agricultural purposes. The goal of this thesis is to define the speed and directions of …

ABSTRACT Wiezik M., Wieziková A.: Selected aspects of ecology of ants (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) in the permanent grasslands of Slovakia The thesis is presented in a form of a …

Arthropods are part of important functional groups in soil and little is known about their
composition in differently used agroecosystems across larger spatial scales. We analysed …