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1. ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

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Felipe Martello, Ernesto de Oliveira Canedo-Júnior, Maria Assunta Busato, Kelly L S Sampaio, Rogério R. Silva, Iracenir Andrade Dos Santos, Chaim J. Lasmar, Diego Anjos, Nadia Barbosa do Espirito Santo, Graciele A Castilho, Fernando Barbosa Noll, Jarbas Marçal Queiroz, Ariel da Cruz Reis, Lucas N. Paolucci, Hipólito Ferreira Paulino-Neto, Wesley Dáttilo, Renata B F Campos, Carlos Eduardo Lustosa Esbérard, Erica dos Santos Araujo, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, Ricardo I. Campos, Bruno K. C. Filgueiras, Carla R. Ribas, Débora Yumi Kayano, Raquel L. Carvalho, Natalia Maritza Ladino López, Luciana Elizalde, Vinicius Marques Lopez, Reuber Antoniazzi, Weslly Franco, Wesley D. DaRocha, Cristian L. Klunk, Priscila Santos Silva, Maria Fernanda Brito de Almeida, Daniel Oliveira Santana, Claudia Tiemi Wazema, Inácio José de Melo Teles E Gomes, Jacques H. C. Delabie, Frederico de Siqueira Neves, Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandão, Lucila Chifflet, Cladis Juliana Lutinski, Esperidião A. Santos-Neto, Evellyn Silva Araújo-Oliveira, Juan Martin Guastavino Díaz, Bruna Borges Moraes, Marcos Augusto Ferraz Carneiro, Mônica Antunes Ulysséa, Carin Guarda, Isis Caroline Siqueira Santos, Rogério Silvestre, Diego Lemos Alves, Roberta de Jesus Santos, Flavio Nunes Ramos, Tamires de Oliveira Andrade, Gabriela P Camacho, Helon Simões Oliveira, Gabriela de Figueiredo Jacintho, Andrés F. Sánchez-Restrepo, Emely Laiara Silva Siqueira, Benedito Cortês Lopes, Alexandre Arnhold, Laís Aryane M Ribeiro, Brisa Tavares, Ana Eugênia de Carvalho Campos, Débora Cristina Rother, Cinthia Borges da Costa-Milanez, Gustavo Andres Zurita, Eduardo Fernando dos Santos, Flavia A. Esteves, Victória N G Silva, Ricardo R. C. Solar, Thiago Gonçalves-Souza, Julieta Filloy, José Oliveira Dantas, Cecília Bueno, Elisangela A. Silva, Dario Daniel Larrea, José H. Schoereder, Bhrenno Maykon Trad, Itanna Oliveira Fernandes, Giselle M. Lourenço, Leandro Sousa-Souto, Rony Peterson Santos Almeida, Filipe Viegas de Arruda, Elmo Borges de Azevedo Koch, Raquel Divieso, Marília Maria Silva da Costa, Alexander L. Wild, Ana Maria Waldschimidt, Cléa dos Santos Ferreira Mariano, Pavel Dodonov, Priscila E Hanisch, Paulo S. Oliveira, Rodrigo Silva de Jesus, Rodolfo S Probst, Bianca Caitano, Carlos Eduardo Cereto, Marcos Antônio Pesquero, Amanda Gomes Madureira Subtil, Mariáh Tibcherani, Gabriela B. Nascimento, Paloma Leal de Andrade, Alvaro Doria dos Santos, Galbán Alvaro, Marcelo Silva Madureira, Igor Rismo Coelho, Marina Acero Angotti, Andrea N Avalos, Nathália Vieira Hissa Safar, Andrew V. Suarez, Gustavo Henrique Machado Santos, Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, Diego Santana Assis, Thiago S. R. Silva, Roberto J. Guerrero, Éliton Vieira Santos, Felipe Marcel Neves, Inara R. Leal, Tainara Thais Jory, Kelli S. Ramos, Vinicius Rodrigues Tonetti, Ricardo Eduardo Vicente, Viviane M Oliveira, Thalles Platiny Lavinscky Pereira, Junir Antonio Lutinski, Paulo H. S. A. Camargo, Antônio C. M. Queiroz, Santiago Santoandré, Flávio Siqueiro de Castro, Guilherme Pereira Alves, Marcio Uehara-Prado, Erin Becker, Boris Yagound, Vivian Ayumi Fujizawa Nacagava, Glória R. Soares, Brenda Pereira-Silva, Érica A Almeida, Ricardo Giovenardi, María Isabel Bellocq, Sérgio Luiz Althoff, Mayara M.G. Imata, John E. Lattke, Roman Alberto López-Muñoz, Carolina Ivon Paris, Marco Aurélio Pizo, Frederico Rottgers Marcineiro, Flávio Roberto Mello Garcia, Débora Rodrigues de Souza-Campana, Ivan Cardoso do Nascimento, Francisco Serna, Félix Baumgarten Rosumek, Helena Carolina Onody, Lívia Pires do Prado, N. S. Silva, William Dröse, Maria Santina de Castro Morini, Marcio R. Pie, Evan P. Economo, Agripino Emanuel Oliveira Alves, Jonathan Majer, Márcio Morais Silva, Júlio C M Chaul, Eder Cleyton Barbosa França, Luiz Eduardo Macedo-Reis, Antonio José Mayhé-Nunes, Ronara Souza Ferreira-Châline, Luis Alberto Calcaterra, S. M. Pinto, Anselmo Santos Souza, Juliana Silveira dos Santos, Fabrício Severo Magalhães, Otávio Guilherme M Silva, M. F. Martins, Erick Villarreal, G. T. Ribeiro, Roberth Fagundes, Mariane U. V. Ronque, Aline Machado Oliveira, Claudia M. Ortiz-Sepúlveda, Brian L. Fisher, Fabiana Cuezzo, Humberto Brant, Andreas L. S. Meyer, William Antonialli, Karine S. Carvalho, Joudellys Andrade-Silva, Philip S. Ward, Marina Vasconcelos de Oliveira, Amanda Aparecida de Oliveira, Erison C. S. Monteiro, Ricardo Toshio Fujihara, Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago, Alexander V. Christianini, André V. L. Freitas, Emília Zoppas de Albuquerque, Ludimila Juliele Carvalho-Leite, Luciana Regina Podgaiski, Corina Anahí Barrera, Mariana Sampaio Casimiro, Fernanda Emanuela Dorneles, Natalia Soares Balbino, Maurice Leponce, Tae Tanaami Fernandes, Alexandre Casadei Ferreira, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Pedro Luna, Benoit Guénard, and Amanda Martins Dias

Subjects
Myrmecology, biology, Land use, Ecology, business.industry, Ecology (disciplines), Distribution (economics), Hymenoptera, Biodiversity, Forests, South America, biology.organism_classification, Biodiversity hotspot, Soil, MATA ATLÂNTICA, Animals, Terrestrial ecosystem, business, Bioindicator, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecosystem
Abstract

Ants, an ecologically successful and numerically dominant group of animals, play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, nutrient recyclers, and regulators of plant growth and reproduction in most terrestrial ecosystems. Further, ants are widely used as bioindicators of the ecological impact of land use. We gathered information of ant species in the Atlantic Forest of South America. The ATLANTIC ANTS data set-which is part of the ATLANTIC SERIES data papers-is a compilation of ant records from collections (18,713 records), unpublished data (29,651 records), and published sources (106,910 records; 1059 references), including papers, theses, dissertations, and book chapters published from 1886 to 2020. In total, the data set contains 153,818 ant records from 7,636 study locations in the Atlantic Forest, representing 10 subfamilies, 99 genera, 1,114 ant species identified with updated taxonomic certainty, and 2,235 morphospecies codes. Our data set reflects the heterogeneity in ant records, which include ants sampled at the beginning of the taxonomic history of myrmecology (the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and more recent ant surveys designed to address specific questions in ecology and biology. The data set can be used by researchers to develop strategies to deal with different macroecological and regional-wide questions, focusing on assemblages, species occurrences and distribution patterns. Furthermore, the data can be used to assess the consequences of changes in land use in the Atlantic Forest on different ecological processes. No copyright restrictions apply to the use of this data set, but we request that authors cite this data paper when using these data in publications or teaching events.

Published
2021

2. A global database of ant species abundances

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Julian Resasco, Xim Cerdá, Jorge Luiz Pereira Souza, Martin Pfeiffer, John T. Longino, Andrea Lucky, Nihara Gunawardene, Catherine L. Parr, Mireia Diaz, Michael D. Weiser, Jessica M. C. Pearce-Duvet, Petr Klimes, Renata Pacheco, Terrence P. McGlynn, Crisanto Gómez, Raphaël Boulay, Heloise Gibb, Andrew V. Suarez, Donat Agosti, Magdalena D. Sorger, Blair F. Grossman, Dirk Mezger, Donald H. Feener, Robert R. Dunn, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Jonathan Majer, Carsten A. Brühl, Xavier Arnan, Robert N. Fisher, Jimmy Moses, Michael Kaspari, Donato A. Grasso, Inge Armbrecht, Alessandra Mori, Martha L. Enríquez, Omid Paknia, Nathan J. Sanders, Alan N. Andersen, Clinton N. Jenkins, Aaron D. Gove, Maurice Leponce, Israel Del Toro, Lori Lach, Tom M. Fayle, Thibaut Delsinne, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Sarah H. Luke, Stacy M. Philpott, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Manoli Photakis, Milan Janda, Rogério R. Silva, Brian L. Fisher, Melanie Tista, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Elena Angulo, Thomas Laeger, Cristina Castracani, Brian E. Heterick, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Sean B. Menke, Tom R. Bishop, Merav Vonshak, Sílvia Abril, Sarah Groc, Benoit Guénard, Michelle Yates, Thinandavha C. Munyai, Aaron M. Ellison, David A. Donoso, Javier Retana, John E. Lattke, Department of Ecology, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Department of Environmental Sciences, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Simon Fraser University (SFU.ca), Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU (BRAZIL), The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Centre for Tropical Biology and Climate Change, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Steinmetz Hall - Entomology and Nematology Department [Gainesville] (UF|IFAS), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|IFAS), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF)-University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Field Museum of Natural History [Chicago, USA], Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, TiHo Hannover, Magillem Design Services, Unitat d'Ecologia i CREAF, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana], University of Illinois System, Department of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, Department of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Department of Zoology, and Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv]

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, ccurrence, Databases, Factual, Range (biology), habitat, ants, Biology, occurrence, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Databases, local assemblage, 03 medical and health sciences, Abundance (ecology), Sampling design, Animals, Ecosystem, pitfall trap, Formicidae, Factual, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, database, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, disturbance, Evolutionary Biology, abundance, Biomass (ecology), Ecology, Ants, Sampling (statistics), 15. Life on land, Pitfall trap, Winkler trap, 030104 developmental biology, Habitat, Ecological Applications, geo-referenced, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
Abstract

What forces structure ecological assemblages? A key limitation to general insights about assemblage structure is the availability of data that are collected at a small spatial grain (local assemblages) and a large spatial extent (global coverage). Here, we present published and unpublished data from 51 ,388 ant abundance and occurrence records of more than 2,693 species and 7,953 morphospecies from local assemblages collected at 4,212 locations around the world. Ants were selected because they are diverse and abundant globally, comprise a large fraction of animal biomass in most terrestrial communities, and are key contributors to a range of ecosystem functions. Data were collected between 1949 and 2014, and include, for each geo-referenced sampling site, both the identity of the ants collected and details of sampling design, habitat type, and degree of disturbance. The aim of compiling this data set was to provide comprehensive species abundance data in order to test relationships between assemblage structure and environmental and biogeographic factors. Data were collected using a variety of standardized methods, such as pitfall and Winkler traps, and will be valuable for studies investigating large-scale forces structuring local assemblages. Understanding such relationships is particularly critical under current rates of global change. We encourage authors holding additional data on systematically collected ant assemblages, especially those in dry and cold, and remote areas, to contact us and contribute their data to this growing data set.

Published
2017
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4. Habitat and Predation Effects on Seedling Survival and Growth in Shade-Tolerant Tropical Trees

Author

Jane Molofsky and Brian L. Fisher

Subjects
Canopy, Tree canopy, Biotic component, Habitat, Ecology, Rainforest, Understory, Biology, Shade tolerance, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Predation
Abstract

The diversity of trees in the forest canopy depends on the successful recruitment of seedlings into the canopy. Tree species that become established as seedlings beneath an undisturbed canopy have been termed "shade-tolerant" (Canham 1989) or "climax" species (Swaine and Whitmore 1988). This is in contrast to "pioneer" species, which can germinate or establish only in the high light conditions of large canopy openings (Swaine and Whitmore 1988). In shade-tolerant species, survival may depend more on biotic factors than on abiotic factors. Therefore, susceptibility to predation can be more important than differences in habitat for determining the survival of these species. In the present study we compare the survival of seedlings in tree-fall gaps and in closed forest understory sites for three shade-tolerant tropical tree species. We also assess the importance of mammalian predation and determine how it varies among species and among habitats. Finally, we analyze the relationship between seedling growth rates and their susceptibility to predation.

Published
1993
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