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

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Rogerio R. Silva at Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi - MPEG
Rogerio R. Silva
Felipe Martello at University of Oxford
Felipe Martello
Rodrigo Machado Feitosa at Federal University of Paraná
Rodrigo Machado Feitosa
Otavio Guilherme Morais Silva at Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi - MPEG
Otavio Guilherme Morais Silva
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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which is part of the ATLANTIC SERIES data papers, is a compilation of ant records from collections (18,713 records), unpublished data (29,651 records), and published sources (106,910 records; 1,059 references), including papers, theses, dissertations, and book chapters published from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 19th and 20th 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 region‐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.
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ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of
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encias da Terra e Ecologia, Museu Paraense Em
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a, Brazil
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Programa de P
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ao em Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
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Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paran
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Programa de P
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ao em Zoologia da Universidade Federal do Par
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Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de S~
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ao Paulo, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
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National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1000 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
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School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, Arizona 85281 USA
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Laborat
orio de Mirmecologia, Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, Comiss~
ao Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira, Ilh
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Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilh
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Laborat
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Instituto Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil
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Departament of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
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Departamento de Ci^
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Centro Regional de Investigaciones La Rioja, Entre R
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Faculdad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Instituto Superior de Entomolog
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Programa de P
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Departamento de Ci^
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Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255,
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ao Paulo 13083-862 Brazil
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Museu da Biodiversidade da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, S~
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Departamento de Ecolog
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Universitaria, Pab 2, Piso 4, Buenos Aires BAC1428EHA Argentina
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African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Fundaci
on para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas, Bol
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Grupo de Investigaci
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etica y Evoluci
on, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient
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ecnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Department of Entomology and Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Programa de P
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Laborat
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Programa de P
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Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florian
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School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Laborat
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Programa de P
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Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New
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Curso de Ci^
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Department of Entomology, Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco,
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Programa de P
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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Prof. Moraes do Rego S/N-Cidade Universit
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Programa de P
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Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Realeza, Paran
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Departamento de Solos, Universidade Federal de Vic
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N
ucleo de Estudos de Vertebrados Silvestres, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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LEAF - Laborat
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Secretaria Especial de Laborat
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Universit
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Universidade Federal da Para
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Laboratorio de Biolog
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CONICET, Tucum
an, Argentina
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Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de S~
ao Paulo, Rua do Mat~
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ao Paulo, S~
ao Paulo 05508-090 Brazil
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Programa de P
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Avenida P
adua Dias, 11, S~
ao Dimas, Piracicaba, S~
ao Paulo 13418-260 Brazil
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Programa de P
os Graduac
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Laborat
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encia da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Rua Gabriel
Monteiro da Silva, 700, Alfenas, Minas Gerais 37130-001 Brazil
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Programa de P
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Paulo, Avenida Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeir~
ao Preto, S~
ao Paulo 14.040-901 Brazil
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Departamento de Ci^
encias Ambientais, Instituto de Florestas, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Serop
edica, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
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Instituto de Bioci^
encias, Letras e Ci^
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ulio de Mesquita Filho”,S
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ao Paulo, Brazil
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P
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Programa de P
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Programa de P
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Departamento de Educac
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Programa de P
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Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan
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Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tucum
an, Miguel Lillo, 205, San Miguel de Tucum
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Ecological Networks, Technische Universit€
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa do Pantanal, Campus Avanc
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Laborat
orio de Ecologia dos Insetos, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Gen
etica, Instituto de Biologia, Pelotas, Rio Grande do
Sul 96010900, 354 Brazil
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etica, Ecologia e Evoluc
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ao, Instituto de Ci^
encias Biol
ogicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais 31270-901 Brazil
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os Graduac
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ao em Ecologia, Conservac
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ao e Manejo da Vida Silvestre, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Museo Entomol
ogico de Universidad Nacional Agronom
ıa Bogot
a, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia, Bogot
a, Colombia
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Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Vic
ßosa, Avenida P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Campus Universit
ario, Vic
ßosa, Minas
Gerais 36570-900 Brazil
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Departamento de Ci^
encias Florestais, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Avenida Marechal Rondon, s/n, S~
ao Crist
ov~
ao, Sergipe
49.100-000 Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Bioci^
encias, Letras e Ci^
encias Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista
“J
ulio de Mesquita Filho”,S
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ao Jos
e do Rio Preto, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
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Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Instituto de Biolog
ıa Subtropical, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Bertoni 85, Pto
Iguaz
u, Misiones 3770 Argentina
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Universidade Estadual do Piau
ı, Avenida Joaquina Nogueira de Oliveira, s/n, Aeroporto, Corrente, Piau
ı 64.980-000 Brazil
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Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberl^
andia, Campus Umuarama, 593, Uberl^
andia, Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Avenida Dr. Ruy Braga, S/N - Vila Mauric
eia, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais 39401-089
Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Biodiversidade e Uso dos Recursos Naturais, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes
Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Centro de Ci^
encias Biol
ogicas, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus
Universit
ario, C
orrego Grande, Florian
opolis, Santa Catarina 88040-900 Brazil
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Laborat
orio de Sistem
atica de Insetos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ci^
encias Biol
ogicas, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Vic
ßosa, Vic
ßosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Centro de Formac
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ao Interdisciplinar, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Par
a, Avenida Mendonc
ßa Furtado, 2312/2313 a 3738/3739,
Aldeia, Santar
em, Par
a 68040-050 Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Ci^
encia do Solo, Centro de Ci^
encias Rurais, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria,
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Coordenac
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ao em Biodiversidade COBio, Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Entomologia/Colec
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ao de Invertebrados, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amaz^
onia, Avenida Andr
eAra
ujo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas 69067-375 Brazil
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Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
88
University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
89
Biomonitoring International Pty Ltd, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Ecologia, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Vic
ßosa, Vic
ßosa, Minas Gerais,
Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Ecologia e Conservac
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ao, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, S~
ao Crist
ov~
ao, Sergipe, Brazil
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Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Pasaje Gutierrez 1125, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400 Argentina
93
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
94
Laborat
orio de Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais, Brazil
95
Centro de Formac
ß
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ao em Ci^
encias e Tecnologias Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Ilh
eus, Bahia, Brazil
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Departamento de Educac
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ao, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia, Brazil
97
Programa de P
os Graduac
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ao em Ecologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
98
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Bioci^
encias, Universidade Estadual Paulista “J
ulio de Mesquita Filho”, Campus Rio Claro,
Prudente, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
99
Programa de P
os-Graduac
ß
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ao em Ambiente e Sociedade, Universidade Estadual de Goi
as, Campus Morrinhos, Morrinhos, Goi
as,
Brazil
100
Departamento de Ci^
encias Naturais, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Campus Vit
oria da Conquista, Estrada do Bem
Querer, Km 4, Vit
oria da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
ß
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ao em Ecologia e Conservac
ß
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ao, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato
Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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Instituto Federal de Educac
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ao Ci^
encia e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campus Ponta Por~
a, Ponta Por~
a, Mato Grosso do Sul,
Brazil
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Aquatic & Terrestrial Ecology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Nature, Brussels, Belgium
104
Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Universit
e Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
105
Programa de P
os-Graduac
ß
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ao em Bot^
anica, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Vic
ßosa, Vic
ßosa, Minas
Gerais, Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
ß
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ao em Ecologia e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Bioci^
encias, Universidade Estadual Paulista “J
ulio de
Mesquita Filho”, Rio Claro, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
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Laborat
orio de Ecologia Aplicada
a Conservac
ß
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ao, Programa de P
os-Graduac
ß
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ao em Ecologia e Conservac
ß
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ao da Biodiversidade,
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilh
eus, Bahia, Brazil
108
Red de Ecoetolog
ıa, Instituto de Ecolog
ıa A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
109
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, California, USA
110
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”MACN-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Programa de P
os Graduac
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ao em Gest~
ao Integrada do Territ
orio, Universidade Vale do Rio Doce, Campus Ant^
onio Rodrigues
Coelho, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais 35020-220 Brazil
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Laborat
orio de Anatomia Vegetal, Centro de Pesquisa e Tecnologia da Amaz^
onia Meridional, Universidade do Estado de Mato
Grosso, Campus II, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Laborat
orio de Ecologia de Comunidades, Instituto de Ci^
encias Biol
ogicas, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiab
a, Mato
Grosso, Brazil
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Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Miss~
oes, Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil
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Deparatmento de Ci^
encias da Natureza, Matem
atica e Educac
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ao, Universidade Federal de S~
ao Carlos, Via Anhanguera, Km 174,
P.O. Box 153, Araras, S~
ao Paulo 13600970 Brazil
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Universidade Federal da Integrac
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ao Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira, Redenc
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ao, Cear
a, Brazil
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Grupo Insectos Neotropicales, Programa de Biolog
ıa, Facultad de Ciencias B
asicas, Universidad del Magdalena, Carrera 32 #22-
08, Santa Marta, Colombia
118
School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 USA
119
Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Entomologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Vic
ßosa, Vic
ßosa, Minas
Gerais, Brazil
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Departamento de Psicologia Experimental, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de S~
ao Paulo, Avenida Prof. Mello Morais, 1721,
05508-030 Cidade Universit
aria, S~
ao Paulo, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
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Laborat
orio de Ecologia e Restaurac
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ao Florestal, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de S~
ao Paulo,
Avenida P
adua Dias, 11, Piracicaba, S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
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Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Bioci^
encias, Universidade de S~
ao Paulo, Rua do Mat~
ao, Travessa 14, n. 101, Cidade
Universit
aria, S~
ao Paulo 05508-900 Brazil
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Laborat
orio de S
ıntese Ecol
ogica e Conservac
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ao da Biodiversidade, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de
Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Bioci^
encias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo
Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
126
Programa de P
os-Graduac
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ao em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
127
Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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; 1,059 ref-
erences), 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 hetero-
geneity in ant records, which include ants sampled at the beginning of the taxonomic history of
myrmecology (the 19th and 20th 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 region-wide questions, focusing on assem-
blages, 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.
Key words: Atlantic Forest fauna; biodiversity hotspot; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; species occurrence;
tropical forests.
The complete data set is available as Supporting Information at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3580.
Manuscript received 6 January 2021; revised 25 March 2021; accepted 6 May 2021; final version received 26 October 2021. Corre-
sponding Editor: William K. Michener.
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... Ants are used as bioindicators because they play roles in many ecosystem dynamics (Majer, 1997;Sid-Ali et al., 2021) due to their species diversity, wide geographic distribution (Silva et al., 2022), and ecological importance (Conceição-Neto et al., 2021). Approximately 16,580 species belonging to 501 genera have been described (Bolton, 2023). ...
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... The complete data set comprises historical and current ant records (ranging from 1803 to 2021), most of them extracted from the Atlantic Ants data set (Silva et al. 2022). We updated this data set by incorporating published literature in 2021, especially by including data sets from recent taxonomic revisions of Neotropical ants, as those of the genera Cephalotes (Oliveira et al. 2021), Dinoponera (Dias and Lattke 2021), and Hylomyrma (Ulysséa and Brandão 2021). ...
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... In the case of ant records that did not have coordinates on labels, we used Google Earth software (https://earth.google.com) or the dataset available in Silva et al. (2022) to search for the sampling site using information on the specimen's label or in logbooks. The assigned information was then entered into the database, which will receive a unique identifier from the database already in use at MZSP. ...
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... Looking for possible records posterior to Wetterer's publication, an extensive search was performed in online academic bases, in Antmaps.org (last accessed on February 2023), as well in recent studies on Brazilian ant diversity Silva et al., 2022). ...
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Strumigenys Smith, 1860 is a megadiverse ant genus with 858 species distributed worldwide. These ants forage and nest in the leaf litter, rotten wood, dried leaves, or twigs and are specialized predators. Here we present the first records of the pantropical Strumigenys rogeri Emery, 1890 in Brazil. The information was obtained from specimens conserved in the Formicidae Collection of the Cocoa Research Center. We recovered data on the occurrence of S. rogeri in six locations in southern Bahia, Brazil. The specimens were found in remnants, secondary growths, or agroforest areas within the Atlantic Brazilian rainforest biome. Interestingly, it seems that areas of cocoa agrosystems shaded with Eritryna legume trees make this ant relatively easy to find. It is reasonable to think that many specimens of S. rogeri were accumulated in entomological collections throughout Brazil or were misidentified due to the complicated taxonomy of the genus.
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The rarity of organisms is related either to a natural origin or human-induced impacts, and rare species are more susceptible to extinction. The Atlantic Forest is an endangered biome with a diverse ant fauna. This study focuses on identifying forms of rarity in ant species recorded in the leaf litter in fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, as a more acute knowledge of rare species can support more appropriate conservation strategies. To do so, we applied the Rabinowitz method to leaf litter ants, considering data on geographical distribution, habitat specificity, and local occurrence to classify them into “forms of rarity”. We then investigated the variation in the composition of forms between phytophysiognomies, and whether environmental variables predict the richness of rare species or not. We also analyzed the degree to which each species is endangered using lists of fauna threatened with extinction from two databases on ants in the Atlantic Forest. In total, we analyzed 242 ant species collected in the forest leaf litter, with 50.4 % classified as “Common”, and the remaining 49.6 % presenting some “form of rarity”. In general, phytophysiognomies have a similar composition of forms. Environmental predictors influence each form differently. Among all species analyzed (rare and common), seven presented some degree of threat (global, national and state lists). Therefore, conservation strategies must aim at the inclusion of rare ants to ensure their diversity.
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The Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot, and myrmecologists broadly study its numerous habitats. Even so, much of its biodiversity remains to be discovered, and the choice of collection methods and habitats to be explored directly affect the results obtained, especially in the case of species with cryptic habits, such as Cylindromyrmex ants. The ant subfamily Dorylinae has 11 genera registered in the Neotropics, with Cylindromyrmex Mayr, 1870 being a lineage to the region. The present study reports new records of three Cylindromyrmex species in 13 municipalities located in the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. It also describes the effect of sampling techniques and habitats on species records. The 78 examined herein specimens belong to the species C. brasiliensis Emery, 1901, C. brevitarsus Santschi, 1925, and C. longiceps André, 1892, and were collected manually or with Malaise traps. Records are distributed along the Espírito Santo state, with a tendency towards higher records in municipalities with mountainous habitats. All records in this region of the Atlantic Forest are associated with the hottest months and with the highest rainfall, suggesting a possible preference for nuptial flights in the summer. Most records of the three Cylindromyrmex species occurred in forested areas (93%), whereas few records belong to urban areas (7%). Although manual collections and Malaise traps are not widely used in research or surveys of ant diversity, these techniques could potentially reveal essential findings for ant ecology.
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Synergistic effect of habitat loss and chronic anthropogenic disturbances on ant species richness
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  • Nov 2023
  • BIODIVERS CONSERV
Habitat loss is an important factor in global biodiversity loss, but categorizing human-modified landscapes as fragments of natural or anthropogenic habitats may underestimate our impact on biodiversity since most natural fragments suffer from chronic anthropogenic disturbances. Here, we tested the synergistic effect between habitat loss and chronic anthropogenic disturbances on ant communities of the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in South America. From online sources and published material, we built a data-set containing information on habitat loss and chronic anthropogenic disturbance index, as well as its vectors (i.e., human population density, infrastructure, logging, fire, and grazing), for 23 Caatinga localities containing information on ant community composition. Generalized linear models demonstrated that habitat loss interacts with chronic anthropogenic disturbance to determine total ant richness and the richness of habitat specialist ants. Furthermore, habitat loss interacts synergistically with several vectors of chronic anthropogenic disturbances to determine ant richness. In general, the effect of habitat loss is exacerbated by human population density, infrastructures, logging, and grazing. The proportion of habitat specialists in the communities did not respond to habitat loss or chronic anthropogenic vectors, suggesting that both ant groups were equally affected by habitat alterations. Although habitat amount is an important predictor of the integrity of the local biodiversity, it tends to underestimate our impact on biological communities. The incorporation of estimates of habitat quality can help us build better models to predict our impact on Earth.
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The Spider Fauna of the Northern Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Effect of Sampling Bias on Diversity Patterns and Conservation
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  • Apr 2023
Spiders are a common and supposedly well-known group of animals that can be found in a large variety of microhabitats, including human constructions. These organisms represent a highly diversified taxon, with significant ecological and human importance. Although spiders are among the most diversified groups of arthropods, the knowledge regarding their diversity patterns suffers from strong biodiversity shortfalls. In Brazil, the distribution of spider records is strongly aggregated spatially, which can be explained by a museum effect, and the effect of easy-to-sample localities. The highest number of records is found in Atlantic Forest, and therefore, this biome has the highest number of recorded spider species and endemic species. However, these records are concentrated in a few regions. The Northern Atlantic Forest, located north of the São Francisco River, is one of the least sampled portions of the biome. This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the diversity and distribution patterns of spiders in this part of the Atlantic Forest considering data of orb-weavers (superfamily Araneoidea) and daddy long-legs (family Pholcidae) spiders. We produced maps showing the spatial variation of the distribution records in order to evaluate the sampling effort, species richness, beta-diversity, and areas of endemism. The spider fauna in Northern Atlantic Forest is known from 212 records of 70 species, and 19 of those are endemic. The present results evidence and corroborate the hypothesis of strong biodiversity shortfalls regarding the spider fauna from this part of the Atlantic Forest. These results support the striking need to stimulate the development of more scientific studies and to allow a proper recognition and conservation of this fauna.KeywordsAraneoideaBiodiversity shortfallsBiogeographyDistribution recordsPholcidaeSpatial analysis
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NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics
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Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non‐detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non‐governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer‐reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non‐detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio‐temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large‐scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data.
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How to prioritize areas for new ant surveys? Integrating historical data on species occurrence records and habitat loss
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  • Dec 2020
  • J INSECT CONSERV
Habitat loss is a leading cause of extinctions, which may occur even before species are recorded or formally described. On the other hand, limitations in species distribution data and sampling biases can hamper inferences about patterns of species richness that form the basis of conservation strategies. Insects, despite their crucial roles in terrestrial ecosystems, are still largely neglected when dealing with biological inventories. Among insects, ants are of unique importance because of their species richness, widespread distribution, and due to their key ecosystem functions such as seed dispersal, soil nutrient cycling, predation, and biological control. In this study, we prioritize different Brazilian biomes and ecoregions for new ant surveys based on information on the distribution of occurrence records and two estimates of habitat loss for the period between 2000 and 2016. We compiled nearly 8000 ant occurrence records, including a total of 1170 species. The Caatinga was the biome showing the greatest urgency for new inventories, whereas the Atlantic Forest had the lowest urgency. However, there were considerable differences of priority between ecoregions belonging to each biome, thus underscoring the need to pay special attention to these geographical units and their characteristic associated with ant species. The prioritization of poorly studied sites with an imminent risk of habitat loss can be a valuable starting point for filling knowledge gaps and can help in formulating new strategies of conservation. The dataset provided here may also be useful in studies on the distribution of ant diversity in Brazil.
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Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward
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  • Mar 2020
Many insect species are under threat from the anthropogenic drivers of global change. There have been numerous well‐documented examples of insect population declines and extinctions in the scientific literature, but recent weaker studies making extreme claims of a global crisis have drawn widespread media coverage and brought unprecedented public attention. This spotlight might be a double‐edged sword if the veracity of alarmist insect decline statements do not stand up to close scrutiny. We identify seven key challenges in drawing robust inference about insect population declines: establishment of the historical baseline, representativeness of site selection, robustness of time series trend estimation, mitigation of detection bias effects, and ability to account for potential artefacts of density dependence, phenological shifts and scale‐dependence in extrapolation from sample abundance to population‐level inference. Insect population fluctuations are complex. Greater care is needed when evaluating evidence for population trends and in identifying drivers of those trends. We present guidelines for best‐practise approaches that avoid methodological errors, mitigate potential biases and produce more robust analyses of time series trends. Despite many existing challenges and pitfalls, we present a forward‐looking prospectus for the future of insect population monitoring, highlighting opportunities for more creative exploitation of existing baseline data, technological advances in sampling and novel computational approaches. Entomologists cannot tackle these challenges alone, and it is only through collaboration with citizen scientists, other research scientists in many disciplines, and data analysts that the next generation of researchers will bridge the gap between little bugs and big data.
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Comparative evaluation of taxonomic and functional diversities of leaf-litter ants of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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  • Sep 2019
The ant community living in leaf litter was assessed in 65 forest sites in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest in the southern region of the state of Bahia, Brazil. In addition, we aimed to understand the patterns between taxonomic and functional diversities using two different resolutions of classification of ants into functional groups. We identified 364 ant species belonging to 68 genera in 10 subfamilies in 65 regions. Considering a more general functional classification, we identified a total of 13 functional ant groups, and 26 functional ant groups considering a more specific functional classification. The Atlantic Forest environments studied presented great taxonomic ant diversity. We observed that ant species richness and the number of functional groups are not closely related metrics, especially when considering a more general functional classification. Moreover, even when considering a more specific functional classification, the relationship with ant richness is only moderate. These results suggest that the number of species in a given group does not necessarily reflect the role played by that group within the environment. Integrating different biodiversity perspectives is crucial for the successful conservation of the Atlantic Forest ants.
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ATLANTIC MAMMALS: a data set of assemblages of medium‐ and large‐sized mammals of the Atlantic Forest of South America
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Biodiversity inventories contain important information about species richness, community structure, and composition, and are the first step in developing any conservation and mitigation strategies. The Atlantic Forest of South America is home to around 334 species of small‐, medium‐, and large‐sized mammals, and is currently restricted to less than 12% of its original cover. Here, we present the ATLANTIC MAMMALS, an open data set on information on medium‐ and large‐sized mammal assemblages in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. A total of 129 studies were compiled, including published and in press peer‐reviewed papers, book chapters, theses and unpublished data. We mapped 244 assemblages, eight orders, 63 genera, and 94 species (24 of which are classified as threatened by the IUCN Red List) distributed in 128 protected and 116 unprotected areas. Species richness of the mammalian assemblages varied from 1 to 39 species (mean 15). The most recorded species in the entire biome was Dasypus novemcinctus, followed by Cerdocyon thous and Procyon cancrivorous. These data can be useful in support of macroecological studies and conservation planning strategies. Please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us of how they are using the data.
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Hormigas de Colombia
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  • Apr 2019
Las hormigas son uno de los grupos de insectos más comunes en los ecosistemas terrestres del planeta, importantes agentes de la dinámica y estructura de bosques, agrosistemas e incluso ambientes antrópicos. En el mundo Colombia ocupa un lugar destacado en diversidad, con 11 subfamilias, 105 géneros y unas 1200 especies descritas. El propósito del libro es ofrecer información actualizada en aspectos de sistemática, filogenia, morfología, métodos de captura y estudio y biología de las hormigas en general. Así como sinopsis de las especies conocidas del país, con claves y diagnosis para las subfamilias y géneros, incluso para las especies esperadas; esta incluye distribución por departamentos. El presente libro es el resultado de 30 años de investigación, con 37 capítulos escritos por 64 autores de 7 países; la mayoría de ellos autoridades mundiales en sus campos de acción.
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The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps
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  • Jun 2020
Social insects, i.e. ants, bees, wasps and termites, are key components of ecological communities, and are important ecosystem services (ESs) providers. Here, we review the literature in order to (i) analyse the particular traits of social insects that make them good suppliers of ESs; (ii) compile and assess management strategies that improve the services provided by social insects; and (iii) detect gaps in our knowledge about the services that social insects provide. Social insects provide at least 10 ESs; however, many of them are poorly understood or valued. Relevant traits of social insects include high biomass and numerical abundance, a diversity of mutualistic associations, the ability to build important biogenic structures, versatile production of chemical defences, the simultaneous delivery of several ESs, the presence of castes and division of labour, efficient communication and cooperation, the capacity to store food, and a long lifespan. All these characteristics enhance social insects as ES providers, highlighting their potential, constancy and efficiency as suppliers of these services. In turn, many of these traits make social insects stress tolerant and easy to manage, so increasing the ESs they provide. We emphasise the need for a conservation approach to the management of the services, as well as the potential use of social insects to help restore habitats degraded by human activities. In addition, we stress the need to evaluate both services and disservices in an integrated way, because some species of social insects are among the most problematic invasive species and native pests. Finally, we propose two areas of research that will lead to a greater and more efficient use of social insects as ES providers, and to a greater appreciation of them by producers and decision‐makers.
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Insect Declines in the Anthropocene
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  • Oct 2019
  • ANNU REV ENTOMOL
Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and there are considerable demographic data for many taxonomically disparate lineages. Additional cases of faunal losses have been noted from Asia, North America, the Arctic, the Neotropics, and elsewhere. While this review addresses both species loss and population declines, its emphasis is on the latter. Declines of abundant species can be especially worrisome, given that they anchor trophic interactions and shoulder many of essential ecosystem services of their respective communities. A review of the factors believed to be responsible for observed collapses and those perceived to be especially threatening to insects form the core of this treatment. In addition to widely recognized threats to insect biodiversity, e.g., habitat destruction, agricultural intensification (including pesticide use), climate change, and invasive species, this assessment highlights a few less commonly considered factors such as atmospheric nitrification from the burning of fossil fuels and the effects of droughts and changing precipitation patterns. Because the geographic extent and magnitude of insect declines are largely unknown, there is an urgent need for monitoring efforts, especially across ecological gradients, which will help to identify important causal factors in declines. This review also considers the status of vertebrate insectivores, reporting bias, challenges inherent in collecting and interpreting insect demographic data, and cases of increasing insect abundance. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Entomology, Volume 65 is January 7, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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