Respiration in wood ant (Formica aquilonia) nests as affected by altitudinal and seasonal changes in temperature

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/15:00455609 RIV/61388971:_____/15:00455609

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.03.024" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.03.024</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.03.024" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.03.024</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Respiration in wood ant (Formica aquilonia) nests as affected by altitudinal and seasonal changes in temperature

Original language description

Wood ants build large, long-lasting nests and maintain stable high temperatures in nest centers from April to September to support brood development. Similar nest temperatures have been recorded regardless of latitude and altitude, suggesting that nests from colder environments produce more heat than nests from warmer environments. We measured changes in temperature and in situ respiration in nests from 700 and 1000 m a.s.l. We also sampled ants and nest materials from the same nests and measured their respiration at 10 and 20 degrees C in the laboratory. Both ant and microbial respiration increased greatly as temperature increased in spring, especially at 1000 m, resulting in the increase in nest temperature in spring. Metabolic activity greatly increased for ants in March and for nest microorganisms in April when nutrient contents also increased because of input of plant material and food. Nests from 1000 m maintained similar temperatures as nests from 700 m in summer but were colder in winter. Ants were responsible for the maintenance of high temperatures during summer but metabolic activity did not differ between the two altitudes, suggesting that the increased respiration and heat production in summer by ants at the higher altitude resulted from an increase in numbers of ants per colony.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

ISSN

0038-0717

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

86

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July 2015

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

50-57

UT code for WoS article

000355496500007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84926635418