In 2005, Rob Dunn, J. P. Lessard, Matt Fitzpatrick, Nate Sanders and Ed Laurent began the North American Ant Database with the goal of understanding patterns of diversity and distribution in North American ants. We have now broadened this database and associated research through a collaboration with more than twenty researchers from 6 continents and roughly a 13 countries.The new database now includes data from more than 3000 sites. Unlike the N...
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In 2005, Rob Dunn, J. P. Lessard, Matt Fitzpatrick, Nate Sanders and Ed Laurent began the North American Ant Database with the goal of understanding patterns of diversity and distribution in North American ants. We have now broadened this database and associated research through a collaboration with more than twenty researchers from 6 continents and roughly a 13 countries.The new database now includes data from more than 3000 sites. Unlike the North American database, the global database will, for the time being, focus only on the diversity of ants rather than on the distribution of particular species. Using the global database we will thus focus on questions related to the global patterns of ant diversity, rather than species composition or distribution.
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