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Ant-termite interactions: an important but under-explored ecological linkage

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F20%3A00525182" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/20:00525182 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901499

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12577" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12577</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12577" target="_blank" >10.1111/brv.12577</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Ant-termite interactions: an important but under-explored ecological linkage

  • Original language description

    Animal interactions play an important role in understanding ecological processes. The nature and intensity of these interactions can shape the impacts of organisms on their environment. Because ants and termites, with their high biomass and range of ecological functions, have considerable effects on their environment, the interaction between them is important for ecosystem processes. Although the manner in which ants and termites interact is becoming increasingly well studied, there has been no synthesis to date of the available literature. Here we review and synthesise all existing literature on ant-termite interactions. We infer that ant predation on termites is the most important, most widespread, and most studied type of interaction. Predatory ant species can regulate termite populations and subsequently slow down the decomposition of wood, litter and soil organic matter. As a consequence they also affect plant growth and distribution, nutrient cycling and nutrient availability. Although some ant species are specialised termite predators, there is probably a high level of opportunistic predation by generalist ant species, and hence their impact on ecosystem processes that termites are known to provide varies at the species level. The most fruitful future research direction will be to evaluate the impact of ant-termite predation on broader ecosystem processes. To do this it will be necessary to quantify the efficacy both of particular ant species and of ant communities as a whole in regulating termite populations in different biomes. We envisage that this work will require a combination of methods, including DNA barcoding of ant gut contents along with field observations and exclusion experiments. Such a combined approach is necessary for assessing how this interaction influences entire ecosystems.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10616 - Entomology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA19-14620S" target="_blank" >GA19-14620S: Network ecology in the big data age: understanding changes in species interaction specificity along environmental gradients</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Biological Reviews

  • ISSN

    1464-7931

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    95

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    18

  • Pages from-to

    555-572

  • UT code for WoS article

    000504254300001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85077363198