scholarly journals Ecological traits and evolutionary sequence of nest establishment in fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Attini)

2004 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. FERNÁNDEZ-MARÍN ◽  
J. K. ZIMMERMAN ◽  
W. T. WCISLO
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Sequence ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Fungus Growing Ants

Behavior-based control of insect crop pests

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra A. Allan
Keyword(s):  
Insect Pests ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Insect Behavior ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Mass Trapping ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Crop Pests ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Crop Development

Manipulation of insect behavior can provide the foundation for effective strategies for control of insect crop pests. A detailed understanding of life cycles and the behavioral repertoires of insect pests is essential for development of this approach. A variety of strategies have been developed based on behavioral manipulation and include mass trapping, attract-and-kill, auto-dissemination, mating and host plant location disruption, and push-pull. Insight into application of these strategies for insect pests within Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera/Thysanoptera are provided, but first with an overview of economic damage and traditional control approaches, and overview of relevant behavioral/ecological traits. Then examples are provided of how these different control strategies are applied for each taxonomic group. The future of these approaches in the context of altered crop development for repellency or as anti-feedants, the effects of climate change and the risks of behaviorally-based methods are discussed.

Microsatellite primers for fungus-growing ants

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Villesen ◽  
P. J. Gertsch ◽  
J. J. Boomsma
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Primers ◽  
Fungus Growing Ants

Phylogenetic diversity and dominant ecological traits of freshwater Antarctic Chrysophyceae

Polar Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Izaguirre ◽  
Fernando Unrein ◽  
M. Romina Schiaffino ◽  
Enrique Lara ◽  
David Singer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Ecological Traits

scholarly journals Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongjun Wang ◽  
Jianqing Tian ◽  
Huai Chen ◽  
Mengchi Ho ◽  
Rytas Vilgalys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Composition ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
Carbon Decomposition ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Recalcitrant Carbon ◽  
Effects Of Temperature ◽  
Abiotic Controls ◽  
Slow Growing

AbstractPeatlands have persisted as massive carbon sinks over millennia, even during past periods of climate change. The commonly accepted theory of abiotic controls (mainly anoxia and low temperature) over carbon decomposition cannot fully explain how vast low-latitude shrub/tree dominated (wooded) peatlands consistently accrete peat under warm and seasonally unsaturated conditions. Here we show, by comparing the composition and ecological traits of microbes between Sphagnum- and shrub-dominated peatlands, that slow-growing microbes decisively dominate the studied shrub-dominated peatlands, concomitant with plant-induced increases in highly recalcitrant carbon and phenolics. The slow-growing microbes metabolize organic matter thirty times slower than the fast-growing microbes that dominate our Sphagnum-dominated site. We suggest that the high-phenolic shrub/tree induced shifts in microbial composition may compensate for positive effects of temperature and/or drought on metabolism over time in peatlands. This biotic self-sustaining process that modulates abiotic controls on carbon cycling may improve projections of long-term, climate-carbon feedbacks in peatlands.

scholarly journals The Larvae of the Fungus-Growing Ants

1948 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Fungus Growing Ants

Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites

Nature ◽  
10.1038/19519 ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 398 (6729) ◽  
pp. 701-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron R. Currie ◽  
James A. Scott ◽  
Richard C. Summerbell ◽  
David Malloch
Keyword(s):  
Fungus Growing Ants

Ecological traits and environmental affinity explain Red Sea fish introduction into the Mediterranean

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 680-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Belmaker ◽  
V. Parravicini ◽  
M. Kulbicki
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Fish Introduction ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Sea Fish

A Cost Benefit Analysis for Distribution of Threatened Species Based on Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nandhi Kesavan ◽  
Latha K
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Species Traits ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Species List ◽  
Critically Endangered Species ◽  
Reptile Species ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Among all the threats to global diversity, climate change is the most severe cause. According to the world’s biodiversity conservation organization, reptile species are affected mostly because the biological and ecological traits of the reptiles are strongly linked with climate. To prevent species extinction, we tried to develop a decision support system that incurs the costs and benefits of reintroducing a taxon from its origin to adapt environmental conditions to conserve it from its extinction. The model was developed by applying multiple linear regressions that take the climatic variables and species traits to determine the cost and benefits for the distribution of species. The effectiveness of the model was evaluated by applying it to the Indian Black Turtle, which is an endangered species list in India evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature list. The model recommends moving the species, which is endangered, to the location where it can save itself from climate change. However, the framework demonstrates huge differences in the estimated significance of climate change, and the model strategy helps to recognize the probable risk of increased revelation to critically endangered species.

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