How many ant species are there on Earth?
The myrmecological community has been interested for decades in all those questions associated with: How many extant ant species are there, really? We contacted authors...
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Doing an ant PostDoc: Misato Okamoto Miyakawa
Misato Okamato Miyakawa is a 33-year old evolutionary biologist from Japan. She studied physics when she was an undergraduate student at Ritsumeikan University. After that,...
Responses of ant assemblages to long-term grassland management
Antonio Pérez-Sánchez is a 35-year-old researcher from Venezuela. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity under the supervision of Jens...
Experiments on collective decision-making during food recruitment make no (ecological) sense
A View compiled by Tomer J. Czaczkes Collective decision making is an important topic, especially for social insect researchers. Broadly, it asks how groups...
Interview with Jacques H.C. Delabie
Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie is a researcher at the Cocoa Research Centre (CEPEC) and gives classes at the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). For...
Doing an ant PhD: Sanja M. Hakala
Sanja Maria Hakala is a 31-year old evolutionary biologist from Finland. She has done all her studies at the University of Helsinki, and in addition...
Colobopsis explodens, a new “exploding ant”
The “exploding ants” of Southeast Asia are currently being investigated in the multidisciplinary WWTF project “Voluntary self-sacrifice in exploding ants: A mechanism to defend co-evolved...
Does ant research need taxonomy?
Do we need taxonomy? An old question, but I encounter it quite regularly, for example, when discussing with students in university courses. We used the...
Nest architecture in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Interview with Walter Reinhart Tschinkel Walter Reinhart Tschinkel was born on 15 September 1940 in what is today the Czech Republic. He and his family emigrated...
Interview with Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas James Gotelli is a community ecologist focusing on the organization of animal and plant communities. His diverse research interests comprise, for example, biogeography, demography...
