Revision Of The Middle American Clade Of The Ant Genus Stenamma Westwood Hymenoptera Formicidae Myrmicinae

Author : Michael G. Branstetter
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789546426826

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Revision of the Middle American Clade of the Ant Genus Stenamma Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) by Michael G. Branstetter Pdf

Stenamma is a cryptic ?leaf-litter? ant genus that occurs in mesic forest habitats throughout the Holarctic region, Central America, and part of northwestern South America (Colombia and Ecuador). The genus was thought to be restricted primarily to the temperate zone, but recent collecting efforts have uncovered a large radiation of Neotropical forms, which rival the Holarctic species in terms of morphological and behavioral diversity. By inferring a broad-scale molecular phylogeny of Stenamma, Branstetter (2012) showed that all Neotropical species belong to a diverse Middle American clade (MAC), and that this clade is sister to an almost completely geographically separated Holarctic clade (HOC). Here, the Middle American clade of Stenamma is revised to recognize 40 species, of which 33 are described as new. Included in the revision are a key to species based on the worker caste, and for each species where possible, descriptions and images of workers and queens, images of males, information on geographic distribution, descriptions of intraspecific variation, and notes on natural history. Several species groups are defined, but the majority of species remain unassigned due to a lack of diagnostic morphological character states for most molecular clades.

Author : Robert W. Jones,C. Patricia Ornelas-García,Rubén Pineda-López,Fernando Álvarez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031172779

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Mexican Fauna in the Anthropocene by Robert W. Jones,C. Patricia Ornelas-García,Rubén Pineda-López,Fernando Álvarez Pdf

This contributed volume presents an analysis of the current conservation status of major faunal groups in Mexico. The chapters describe a prognosis of future challenges, and also explore the expanding threats inherent in the Anthropocene within the context of the unique physical, biological and cultural aspects of the nation. Covering 27 chapters, and written by Mexican and international authors, this book analyzes a wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate animal taxa, their ecosystems and the critical processes related to their present conservation status. This volume is an important reference material for researchers, conservationists and students interested in the biological and ecological processes shaping the Mexican fauna.

Author : Brian E. Heterick,Steven O. Shattuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Iridomyrmex
ISBN : 1869776763

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Revision of the Ant Genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Brian E. Heterick,Steven O. Shattuck Pdf

Author : Stefano Cantone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 9791220037075

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Winged Ants. The Queen. Dichotomous Key to Genera of Winged Ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: Morphological and Systematic Relationships by Stefano Cantone Pdf

Author : Benoit Guénard,Robert R. Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ants
ISBN : 1775570541

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A Checklist of the Ants of China by Benoit Guénard,Robert R. Dunn Pdf

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674002938

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Pheidole in the New World by Edward O. Wilson Pdf

CD-ROM contains high resolution digital images of most of the type species.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498784038

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Biogeobears - a Bayesian Approach to Biogeography by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : American Entomological Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Entomology
ISBN : 1887988157

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Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute by American Entomological Institute Pdf

Author : William Morton Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317230250

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The Social Insects by William Morton Wheeler Pdf

Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call them ‘social’. Terebrantia, aculeata, wasps, bees, ants, and termites are discussed in a succession of chapters, showing how they have evolved, to how great an extent they have developed, and what are the peculiarities of their evolution. Polymorphism, the Social Medium, Guests and Parasites of the Social Insects, are other subjects discussed in this fascinating book.

Author : Andrew Austin,Mark Dowton
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643066101

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Hymenoptera by Andrew Austin,Mark Dowton Pdf

The Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of terrestrial anthropods and compromises the sawflies, wasps, ants, bees and parasitic wasps. This book examines the current state of all major areas of research for this important group of insects, including systematics, biological control, behaviour and use in education.

Author : Bert Hölldobler,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393340877

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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Hölldobler,Edward O. Wilson Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland—from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.

Author : Dalip Kumar Upreti,Pradeep K. Divakar,Vertika Shukla,Rajesh Bajpai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788132222354

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Recent Advances in Lichenology by Dalip Kumar Upreti,Pradeep K. Divakar,Vertika Shukla,Rajesh Bajpai Pdf

This book discusses in detail molecular, mycobiont culture, biomonitoring and bioprospection of lichens, providing insights into advances in different fields of lichenology by applying modern techniques and approaches and examining how their application has enhanced or changed classical approaches. It offers a valuable resource, especially for beginners, students and researchers from different academic backgrounds interested in the study of lichens. In recent years, the introduction of modern analytical techniques and approaches has significantly improved our understanding of the environment, including lichens. Lichens are unique organisms which possess untapped potential as effective and reliable bioindicators, sources of therapeutic phytochemicals, and as excellent extremophiles. The unique and peculiar characteristics of lichens underline the need for a multidimensional approach to explore their potential in various fields of environment science, botany and chemistry. Modern techniques, especially molecular techniques, have greatly enriched the field of lichen taxonomy and its position in the plant kingdom, revealing little-known species and exploring their evolutionary history, while multivariate analysis and GIS approaches have established lichens as an ideal and reliable tool for monitoring air pollution. Advanced culture techniques have expanded the pharmacological applications of lichens, which was formerly restricted due to their small biomass. The advent of sophisticated analytical instrumentation has now facilitated the isolation and characterization of lichens’ bioactive constituents, even in lower concentrations, as well as the estimation of their stress responses at different levels of pollution. As lichen diversity is adversely affected by increasing air pollution, there is a pressing need to develop effective management practices to conserve, restore and document lichen diversity.

Author : Donald R. Prothero,Linda C. Ivany,Elizabeth A. Nesbitt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231127162

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From Greenhouse to Icehouse by Donald R. Prothero,Linda C. Ivany,Elizabeth A. Nesbitt Pdf

The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity "greenhouse" world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, "icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and evolutionary hypotheses about the Eocene deterioration. The authors' goals are to discuss the latest information concerning climatic and oceanographic change associated with this transition and to examine geographic and taxonomic patterns in biotic turnover that provide clues about where, when, and how fast these environmental changes happened. They address a range of topics, including the tectonic and paleogeographic setting of the Paleogene; specific issues related to the stratigraphy of shelf deposits; advances in recognizing and correlating boundary sections; trends in the expression of climate change; and patterns of faunal and floral turnover. In the process, they produce a valuable synthesis of patterns of change by latitude and environment.

Author : William P. Mackay,Emma Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ants
ISBN : 0773468846

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The Ants of New Mexico by William P. Mackay,Emma Mackay Pdf

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Author : Kenneth G. Ross,Robert W. Matthews
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501718670

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The Social Biology of Wasps by Kenneth G. Ross,Robert W. Matthews Pdf

In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior. The first part of the book opens with a review of the classification of the family Vespidae along with a revision of the subfamily Polistinae. Seven subsequent chapters deal with the natural history and social biology of each of the major taxa of social and presocial vespids. The second part of the book offers chapters on reproductive competition; worker polyethism; evolution of nest architecture, of queen number and queen control, and of exocrine glands; population genetics; the nutritional bsis of social evolution; and the nest as the locus of social life. The final chapter is a comparative discussion of social behavior in the Sphecidae, the only family of wasps besides the Vespidae in which well-developed social behavior is known. Providing a wealth of information about the biology of wasps, this comprehensive, up-to-date volume will be an essential reference for entomologists, evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, ethologists, and zoologists. Contributors: James M. Carpenter. David P. Cowan. Holly A Downing. Raghavendra Gadagkar. Albert Greene. James H. Hunt. Robert L. Jeanne. Makoto Matsuura. Robert W. Matthews. Hudson K. Reeve. PeterFrank Roseler. Kenneth G. Ross. J. Philip Spradbery. Christopher K. Starr. Stefano Turillazzi. John W. Wenzel. Mary Jane West-Eberhard.