By Jenni A. Stockan,Elva J. H. Robinson

ISBN-10: 1107048338

ISBN-13: 9781107048331

wooden ants play an ecologically dominant and conspicuous function in temperate boreal forests, creating a keystone contribution to wooded area atmosphere features and approaches. wooden ant taxonomy and international distributions set the scene for this text's exploration of wooden ants as social bugs, interpreting their versatile social buildings, genetics, inhabitants ecology, and behavior, from nest-mate acceptance to job allocation. wooden ants' interactions with their setting and with different organisms are necessary to their good fortune: pageant, predation and mutualism are defined and analysed. Bringing jointly the services of ecological researchers and conservation practitioners, this e-book offers useful and theoretical suggestion approximately sampling and tracking those bugs, and descriptions the necessities for powerful conservation. this can be an integral source for wooden ant researchers, entomologists, conservationists and ecological specialists, in addition to a person attracted to social bugs, keystone species and the administration and conservation of woodland ecosystems.

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