Keeping cool: Enhanced optical reflection and radiative heat dissipation in Saharan silver ants

By N. Shi, Cheng-Chia Tsai, F. Camino, G. D. Bernard, N. Yu, Rüdiger Wehner. Science, 2015

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Genetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Controlling macroscopic heat transfer with thermal metamaterials: Theory, experiment and application (2021, background): “reported that Saharan silver ants are covered with a dense array of hairs on the top and sides f their bodies [89].”
• Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments (2016, neutral): “For example, Cataglyphis species have been recorded to use specialized reflecting hairs (Shi et al., 2015) to thermoregulate in hot conditions.”
• Coping with the cold: minimum temperatures and thermal tolerances dominate the ecology of mountain ants (2017, background): “There are also a variety of both individual (Cerdá & Retana, 2000; Shi et al., 2015) and colony-level (Kadochová & Frouz, 2013) thermoregulatory mechanisms that ants use to maintain optimum temperatures in both hot and cold conditions.”