Using ants as bioindicators in land management: simplifying assessment of ant community responses

By A. Andersen, B. Hoffmann, W. Müller, Anthony D. Griffiths. 2002

373 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. B. Hoffmann
2. A. Andersen
3. I. Armbrecht
4. Jonathan D. Majer
5. W. Magnusson
6. I. Perfecto
7. A. Fisher
8. J. Souza

In Genetics

1. B. Hoffmann
2. A. Andersen
3. I. Perfecto
4. Jonathan D. Majer
5. I. Armbrecht
6. L. Rivera
7. Luis Mauricio Bini
8. John L. Read

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. B. Hoffmann
2. A. Andersen
3. F. Costa
4. W. Magnusson
5. Jonathan D. Majer
6. J. Souza
7. L. Rivera
8. J. D. Moraes

Citations in the corpus

• Biological soil quality indicators: a review (2010, background): “Andersen et al. (2002), explained the importance of ants as biological indicators, especially in restoration processes after impacts (i.e. mining industry), because their presence depends on the diversity and composition of plant communities making them a better predictor of microbial biomass than…”
• How far can we go in simplifying biomonitoring assessments? An integrated analysis of taxonomic surrogacy, taxonomic sufficiency and numerical resolution in a megadiverse region (2012, background): “Many investigations (e.g., Andersen et al., 2002) have used indicators for assessments of ecological integrity, but most of these studies focused on biological groups assumed to have strong relationships with particular environmental variables.”
• Ants show the way Down Under: invertebrates as bioindicators in land management (2004, background): “For example, the use of ant by-catch from conventional vertebrate pitfall traps has been shown to be highly effective in assessing off-site mining impacts (Andersen et al. 2002), as well as biodiversity responses to landscape position, grazing, and military use (Woinarski et al.”
• Use of terrestrial invertebrates for biodiversity monitoring in Australian rangelands, with particular reference to ants (2004, background): “The protocol was able to differentiate between different habitat types (rocky ridges, triangles; rocky plains, circles; alluvial plains, squares) and different levels of SO2 (background, open symbols; low, lightly shaded symbols; medium, heavily shaded symbols; high, closed symbols). Modified from ”
• Reduced Diversity and Complexity in the Leaf‐Litter Ant Assemblage of Colombian Coffee Plantations (2005, background): “Knowing that ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are highly sensitive to habitat changes (Peck et al. 1998; Andersen et al. 2002) and that elsewhere their diversity decreases when shade coffee is transformed into sun coffee (e.g., Perfecto & Snelling 1995; Perfecto et al. 2003), this group of organisms…”
• The influence of urban park characteristics on ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) communities (2008, neutral): “Urban species must also adapt to higher urban temperatures compared to rural areas (Baur and Baur 1993; Angilletta et al. 2007) and urban parks often have increased levels of pollution and soil compaction (Pyle et al. 1981; Jim 1998).”
• The verification and application of bioindicators: a case study of dung beetles in a savanna ecosystem (2002, background): “However, the financial and person-hour costs of obtaining representative data bases such as these are high (Noss 1990; Balmford, Jayasuriya & Green 1996; Spector & Forsyth 1998; Andersen et al. 2002).”