Tainara Jory

Universidade Federal do Paraná | UFPR · Department of Zoology

Ant assemblages have been used as bioindicators of the response of biodiversity to different types of anthropogenic disturbances. However, usual diversity metrics (e.g., ant species richness and composition) sometimes seem fair limited to show a general panorama of human impacts. Thus, we verified habitat-use ant guilds as a complementary predictab...

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 sp...

Piauí, a Brazilian Northeast state, has been considered one of the most important regions for the presence of new taxa in ants globally, especially considering the ecosystems' diversity formed by the transition of the three biomes in the state, the Cerrado, Caatinga and the Atlantic Forest. Despite the recent increase in studies of ant diversity in...

Fouling assemblages from a Brazilian subtropical rocky coast.