Ants : standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Agosti, Donat
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Series:Biological diversity handbook series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Biodiversity studies, monitoring, and ants : an overview / Leeanne E. Alonso, Donat Agosti
  • A primer on ant ecology / Michael Kaspari
  • A global ecology of rainforest ants : functional groups in relation to environmental stress and disturbance / Alan N. Andersen
  • The interactions of ants with other organisms / Ted R. Schultz, Terrence P. McGlynn
  • Diversity of ants / William L. Brown
  • Ants as indicators of diversity / Leeanne E. Alonso
  • Using ants to monitor environmental change / Michael Kaspari, Jonathan D. Majer
  • Broad-scale patterns of diversity in leaf litter ant communities / Philip S. Ward
  • Field techniques for the study of ground-dwelling ants : an overview, description, and evaluation / Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Donat Agosti, Leeanne E. Alonso, C. Roberto F. Brandáo, William L. Brown Jr., Jacques H.C. Delabie, Rogerio Silvestre
  • Sampling effort and choice of methods / Jacques H.C. Delabie, Brian L. Fisher, Jonathan D. Majer, Ian W. Wright
  • Specimen processing : building and curating an ant collection / John E. Lattke
  • Major regional and type collections of ants (Formicidae) of the world and sources for the identification of ant species
  • C. Roberto F. Brandáo
  • What to do with the data / John T. Longino
  • The ALL protocol : a standard protocol for the collection of ground-dwelling ants / Donat Agosti, Leeanne E. Alonso
  • Applying the ALL protocol : selected case studies / Brian L. Fisher, Annette K.F. Malsch, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Jacques H.C. Delabie, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Jonathan D. Majer.