Ants as Indicators of Restoration Success at a Uranium Mine in Tropical Australia

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The role of ants in conservation monitoring: If, when, and how (2006, background): “…at rehabilitation sites often followed a predictable pattern, with specialist groups such as Cryptic species and Specialist Predators remaining suppressed for some time, owing to insufficient litter and a lack of woody debris and logs (Andersen, 1993; Madden and Fox, 1997; Majer and Nichols, 1998).”
Evaluation of Sampling Methods and Species Richness Estimators for Ants in Upland Ecosystems in Florida (2005, background): “They are among the most studied terrestrial invertebrate taxa and have been used to monitor environmental impact and ecosystem recovery ( Andersen 1990, 1993, Ho¨ lldobler and Wilson 1990, Folgarait 1998).”
Vegetation structure, species diversity, and ecosystem processes as measures of restoration success (2005, background): “Ant composition has been positively correlated with litter cover ( Andersen, 1993 ), litter depth (Carvalho and Vasconcelos, 1999), and litter biomass (Barberena-Arias and Aide, 2003), which can explain the similar species composition in the reforested and reference sites.”