Coping with the cold: minimum temperatures and thermal tolerances dominate the ecology of mountain ants

By T. R. Bishop, Mark P. Robertson, B. J. Rensburg, C. Parr. 2017

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1. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are often cited as highly thermophilic and this has led to a range of studies investigating their thermal tolerances. It is unknown, however, if the geographic distribution of ant thermal tolerance conforms to the two major macropyhsiological rules that have been found in other taxa: Janzen's and Brett's rules. In addition, there is a paucity of data on how the lower thermal tolerances of ants are able to influence behaviour.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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