Many insects and arthropods live in colonies or aggregations of varying size. Group size
may affect collective organization either because the same individual behavior has different …

Body size is a key life-history trait influencing all aspects of an organism's biology. Ants
provide an interesting model for examining body-size variation because of the high degree …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

Models that predict organismal and population responses to climate change may be
improved by considering ecological factors that affect species thermal tolerance. Species …

The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000
described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …

The climatic variability hypothesis (CVH) is a cornerstone of thermal ecology, predicting the
evolution of wider organismal thermal tolerance ranges in more thermally variable …

Army ants are dominant social hunters of invertebrates and thereby play an integral role in
tropical ecosystems. They are defined by a suite of evolutionarily interrelated physiological …

Biological systems must adjust to changing external conditions, and their resilience depends
on their control mechanisms. How is dynamic control implemented in noisy, decentralized …

Army ants are among the top arthropod predators and considered keystone species in
tropical ecosystems. During daily mass raids with many thousand workers, army ants hunt …

Identification of priority areas for conservation is crucial for the maintenance and protection
of biodiversity, particularly in tropical forests where biodiversity continues to be lost at …