Ant Nests References


Ackonor, J.B., 1983. The nest and nesting habits of the ant Cataulacus guineensis F Smith (Hymenoptera, Forminicidae) in a Ghanaian cocoa farm. Insect Science and its Application, v. 4, n. 3, p. 267-283.

Anderson, C., McShea, D.W., 2001. Intermediate-level parts in insect societies: adaptive structures that ants build away from the nest. Insectes Sociaux, v. 48, n. 4, p. 291-301. doi: 10.1007/PL00001781

Anderson, S.R., 2009. A primitive ant brood chamber with evidence of brood care in Burmese amber (Lower Cretaceous): implications for brood care as the facilitating factor for true eusociality and dominance of ants. Denisia, v. 26, p. 11-20.

Bollazzi, M., Roces, F., 2010. The thermoregulatory function of thatched nests in the South American grass-cutting ant, Acromyrmex heyeri. Journal of Insect Science, v. 10, art. num. 137.

Boulton, A.M., Amberman, K.D., 2006. How ant nests increase soil biota richness and abundance: a field experiment. Biodiversity and Conservation, v. 15, n. 1, p. 69-82. doi: 10.1007/s10531-004-2177-7

Braschler, B., Baur, B., 2003. Effects of experimental small-sclae grassland fragmentation on spatial distribution, density, and persistence of ant nests. Ecological Entomology, v. 28, n. 6, p. 651-658. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2003.00549.x

Cerquera, L.M., Tschinkel, W.R., 2010. The nest architecture of the ant Odontomachus brunneus. Journal of Insect Science, v. 10, art. num. 64.

Cosarinsky, M.I., 2006. Nest micromorphology of the neotropical mound building ants Camponotus punctulatus and Solenopsis sp. Sociobiology, v. 47, n. 2, p. 329-344.

Crist, T.O., Friese, C.F., 1994. The use of ant nests by subterranean termites in 2 semiarid ecosystems. American Midland Naturalist, v. 131, n. 2, p. 370-373. doi: 10.2307/2426264

Dahbi, A., Retana, J., Lenoir, A., Cerda, X., 2008. Nest-moving by the polydomous ant Cataglyphis iberica. Journal of Ethology, v. 26, n. 1, p. 119-126. doi: 10.1007/s10164-007-0041-4

Denis, D., Chameron, S., Costille, L., Pocheville, A., Chaline, N., Fresneau, D., 2008. Workers agonistic interactions in queenright and queenless nests of a polydomous ant society. Animal Behaviour, v. 75, p. 791-800. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.016

Diaz, M., 1991. Spatial patterns of granivorous ant nest abundance and nest site selection in agricultural landscapes of central Spain. Insectes Sociaux, v. 38, n. 4, p. 351-363. doi: 10.1007/BF01241871

Ed. Diehl-Fleig, Diehl. E., 2007. Nest architecture and colony size of the fungus-growing ant Mycetophylax simplexEmery 1888 (Formicidae, Attini). Insectes Sociaux, v. 54, n. 3, p. 242-247. doi: 10.1007/s00040-007-0936-7

Eldridge, D.J., 1994. Nests of ants and termites influence infiltration in a semiarid woodland. Pedobiologia, v. 38, n. 6, p. 481-492.

Enzmann, B.L., Nonacs, P., 2010. Digging beneath the surface: incipient nest characteristics across three species of harvester ant that differ in colony founding strategy. Insectes Sociaux, v. 57, n. 1, p. 115-123. doi: 10.1007/s00040-009-0056-7

Espinoza, N.D., Santamarina, C.J., 2010. Ant tunneling- a granular media perspective. Granular Matter, v. 12, n. 6, p. 607-616. doi: 10.1007/s10035-010-0202-y

Farji-Brener, A.G., Illes, A.E., 2000. Do leaf-cutting ant nests make "bottom up" gaps in neotropical rain forests? a critical review of the evidence. Ecology Letters, v. 3, n. 3, p. 219-227.

Farji-Brener, A.G., ghermandi, L., 2008. Leaf-cutting ant nests near roads increase fitness of exotic plant species in natural protected areas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, v. 275, n. 1641, p. 1431-1440. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0154

Fedoseeva, E.B., Demchenko, A.V., 1997. Effects of substrate on nest density in ants Myrmica ruginodia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoologichensky Zhurnal, v. 76, n. 5, p. 543-553.

Frouz, J., 1996. The role of nest moisture in thermoregulation of ant (Formica polyctena, Hymenoptera, Formicidae) nests. Biologia, v. 51, n. 5, p. 541-547.

Frouz, J., 2000. The effect of nest moisture on daily temperature regime in the nests of Formica polyctena wood ants. Insectes Sociaux, v. 47, n. 3, p. 229-235. doi: 10.1007/PL00001708

Gregory, M.R., Campbell, K.A., Alfaro, A.C., Hudson, N., 2009. Bee and ant burrows in Quaternary “coffee rock” and Holocene sand dunes, Kowhai Bay, Northland, New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 273, n. 1-2. p. 102-110. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.12.008

Halfen, A.F., Hasiotis, S.T., 2010. Neoichnological study of the traces and burrowing behaviors of the Western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Paleodpedogenic and paleoecological implications. Palaios, v. 25, n. 11-12, p. 703-720. doi: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-005r

Halley, J.D., Burd, N., Wells, P., 2005. Excavation and architecture of Argentine ant nests. Insectes Sociaux, v. 52, n. 4, p. 350-356. doi: 10.1007/s00040-005-0818-9

Heller, N.E., Ingram, K.K., Gordon, D.M., 2008, Nest connectivity and colony structure in unicolonial Argentine ants. Insectes Sociaux, v. 55, n. 4, p. 397-403. doi: 10.1007/s00040-008-1019-0

Ipinza-Regla, J., Castro, L., Eissemann, R., Morales, M.A., 2010. Factors influencing the distribution of nests of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile Mary (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in a foothills ecosystem of the central zone of Chile. Neotropical Entomology, v. 39, n. 5, p. 686-690. doi: 10.1590/S1519-566X2010000500002

James, A.I., Eldridge, D.J., Koen, T.B., Whitford, W.G., 2008. Landscape position moderates how ant nests affect hydrology and soil chemistry across a Chihuahuan Desert watershed. Landscape Ecology, v. 23, n. 8, p. 961-975. doi: 10.1007/s10980-008-9251-6

Jones, J.B., Wagner, D., 2006, Microhabitat-specific controls on soil respiration and denitrification in the Mojave Desert: the role of harvester ant nests. Western North American Naturalist, v. 66, n. 4, p. 426-433. doi: 10.3398/1527-0904(2006)66[426:MCOSRA]2.0.CO;2

Jurgensen, M.F., Finer, L., Domisch, T., Kilpelainen, J., Punttila, P., Ohashi, M., Niemela, P., Sundstrom, L., Neuvonen, S., Risch, A.C., 2008. Organic mound-building ants: their impact on soil properties in temperate and boreal forests. Journal of Applied Entomology, v. 132, n. 4, p. 266-275. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0418.2008.01280.x

Kulkarni, K.G., Borkar, V.D., 2007. Architecture of arboreal nests of Crematogaster ants. SEPM Special Publication, v. 88, p. 373-377.

Lenoir, L., Persson, T., Bengtsson, J., 2001. Wood ant nests as potential hot spots for carbon and nitrogen mineralisation. Biology and Fertility of Soils, v. 34, n. 4, p. 235-240. doi: 10.1007/s003740100405

Minter, N.J., Franks, N.R., Brown, K.A.R., 2012. Morphogenesis of an extended phenotype: four-dimensional ant nest architecture. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, v. 9, n. 68, p. 586-595. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0377

Peng, R.K., Christian, K., Gibb, K., 1998. Locating queen ant nests in the green ant, Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux, v. 45, n. 4, p. 477-480. doi: 10.1007/s000400050103

Reis, M.D., Zanetti, R., Scolforo, J.R.S., Ferreira, M.Z., Zanuncio, J.C., 2008. Sampling of leaf-cutting ant nests (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in eucalyptus plantations using quadrant and Prodan methods. Sociobiology, v. 51, n. 1, p. 21-29.

Roberts, E.M., Tapanila, L., 2006. A new social insect nest from the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of Southern Utah. Journal of Paleontology, v. 80, n. 4, p. 768-774. doi: 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[768:ANSINF]2.0.CO;2

Sanetra, M., Crozier, R.H., 2002. Daughters inherit colonies from mothers in the "living-fossil" ant, Nothomyrmecia macrops. Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, n. 2, p. 71-74. doi: 10.1007/s00114-001-0288-5

Santos Lopez, J.F., Ribeiro, L.F., Brugger, M.S., Camagro, R.D., Caldato, N., Forti, L.C., 2011. Internal architecture and population size of Acromyrmex subterraneus molestans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) nests: comparison between a rural and an urban area. Sociobiology, v. 58, n. 3, p. 593-605.

Schluns, E.A., Neumann, P., Schluns, H., Hepburn, H.R., Moritz, R.F.A., 2006. Nestmate recognition and genetic variability among individuals from nests of the queenless ponerine ant, Streblognathus aethiopicus Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). African Entomology, v. 14, n. 1, p. 95-102.

Servigne, P., Detrain, C., 2010. Opening myrmecochory's black box: what happens inside the ant nest? Ecological Research, v. 25, n. 3, p. 663-672. doi: 10.1007/s11284-010-0700-8

Smith, J.J., Platt, B.F., Ludvigson, G.A., Thomasson, J.R., 2011. Ant-nest ichnofossils in honeycomb calcretes, Neogene Ogallala Formation, High Plains region of western Kansas, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 308, n. 3-4, p. 383-394. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.046

Snyder, S.R., Crist, T.O., Friese, C.F., 2002. Variability in soil chemistry and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in harvester ant nests: the influence of topography, grazing and region. Biology and Fertility of Soils, v. 35, n. 6, p. 406-413. doi: 10.1007/s00374-002-0487-z

Soares, S.M., Schoereder, J.H., 2001. Ant-nest distribution in a remnant of tropical rainforest in southeastern Brazil. Insectes Sociaux, v. 48, n. 3, p. 280-286. doi: 10.1007/PL00001778

Soloman, S.E., Lopes, C.T., Mueller, U.G., 2011. Nesting biology and fungiculture of the fungus-growing ant, Mycetagroicus cerradensis: new light on the origin of higher-attine agriculture. Journal of Insect Science, v. 11, p. 1-14.

Sousa-Souto, L., Schoereder, J.H., Schaefer, C.E.G.R., Silva, W.L., 2008. Ant nests and soil nutrient availability: the negative impact of fire. Journal of Tropical Ecology, v. 24, p. 639-646. doi: 10.1017/S0266467408005464

Tinaut, A., Ruano, F., Sanllorente, O., Fernandez-Zambrano, A., Karaman, C., Kaz, Y., 2010. Nest composition and worker relatedness in three slave-making ants of the genus Rossomyrmex arnoldi and their Proformica ruzsky hosts. Insect Science, v. 17, n. 4, p. 361-368. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2009.01303.x

Tschinkel, W.R., 2001. Subterranean ant nests: trace fossils past and future? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 192, n. 1-4, p. 321-333. doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00690-9

Tschinkel, W.R., 2004. The nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius. The Journal of Insect Science, v. 4, n. 21. p. 1-19.

Tschinkel, W.R., 2005. The nest architecture of the ant,Camponotus socius. The Journal of Insect Science, v. 5, n. 9, p. 1-18.

Tschinkel, W.R., 2010. Methods for casting subterranean ant nests. Journal of Insect Science, v. 10, n. 88, p. 1-17.

Vele, A., Holusa. J., 2008. Impact of vegetation removal on the temperature and moisture content of red wood ant nests. Insectes Sociaux, v. 55, n. 4, p. 364-369. doi: 10.1007/s00040-008-1014-5

Wagner, D., 1997. The influence of ant nests on Acacia seed production, herbivory and soil nutrients. Journal of Ecology, v. 85, n. 1, p. 83-93. doi: 10.2307/2960629

Wagner, D., Brown, M.J.F., Gordon, D.M., 1997. Harvester ant nests, soil biota and soil chemistry. Oecologia, v. 112, n. 2, p. 232-236. doi: 10.1007/s004420050305

Wagner, D., Jones, J.B., 2004. the contribution of harvester ant nests, Pogonomyrmex rugosus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), to soil nutrient stocks and microbial biomass in the Mojave Desert. Environmental Ecology, v. 33, n. 3, p. 599-607.

Wagner, D., Nicklen, F.E., 2010, Ant nest location, soil nutrients and nutrient uptake by ant-associated plants: does extrafloral nectar attract ant nests and thereby enhance plant nutrition? Journal of Ecology, v. 98, n. 3, p. 614-624. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01640.x

Wang, D., McSweeney, K., lowery, B., Norman, J.M., 1995. Nest structure of ant Lasius-neoniger emery and its implications to soil modification. Geoderma, v. 66, n. 3-4, p. 259-272. doi: 10.1016/0016-7061(94)00082-L

Warburg, I., Steinberger, Y., 1997. On the spatial distribution of nests of the ants Messor arenarius and Messor ebeninus. Journal of Arid Environments, v. 36, n. 4, p. 671-676. doi: 10.1006/jare.1996.0245

Wilson, E.O., Taylor, R.W., 1964. A fossil ant colony: New evidence of social antiquity. Psyche, v. 71, n. 2, p. 93-103. doi: 10.1155/1964/17612

Zanuncio, J.C., Lopes, E.T., Zanetti, R., Pratissoli, D., Coulto, L., 2002. Spatial distribution of nests of the leaf cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in plantations of Eucalyptus urophylla in Brazil. Sociobiology, v. 39, n. 2, p. 231-242.

Zee, J., Holway, D., 2006. Nest raiding by the invasive Argentine ant on colonies of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex subnitidus. Insectes Sociaux, v. 53, n. 2, p. 161-167. doi: 10.1007/s00040-005-0853-6