Aim Foraging activity is critical for animal survival. Comprehending how ecological drivers
influence foraging behaviour would benefit our understanding of the link between animals …

Growing concern over rapid species declines and extinctions has led to considerable
interest in the role of biodiversity for maintaining ecological processes. However, the loss of …

Here we examine the extent to which European patterns of ant diversity and functional
composition conform with those documented in North America. Following protocols …

The degree to which competition by dominant species shapes ecological communities
remains a largely unresolved debate. In ants, unimodal dominance–richness relationships …