Savanna ant species richness is maintained along a bioclimatic gradient of increasing latitude and decreasing rainfall in northern Australia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2313-2322

  Andersen, Alan N ^a   Del Toro, Israel ^a,b   Parr, Catherine L ^a,c,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ant communities; Biogeographical boundaries; Evolutionary history; Latitudinal diversity gradient; Monsoonal tropics; Northern Australian Tropical Transect; Species diversity; Species turnover; Tropical savanna

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARIDITY; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LATITUDE; MONSOON; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; RAINFALL; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSECT;

AUSTRALIA;

FORMICIDAE; ISOPTERA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84955199241     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12599     Document Type: Article

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