Genetic structure of the Black Bog Ant (Formica picea Nylander) in the United Kingdom

Rees, Simon D.; Orledge, Glenda M.; Bruford, Michael William; Bourke, Andrew F. G.

doi:10.1007/s10592-009-9915-z

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“…L. niger, C. herculeanus) to seemingly poor ones (see Vepsäläinen and Pisarski 1982). There is evidence that the dispersal of the mire ant Formica picea is weak, not only between different mires but also within mires (Mabelis and Chardon 2005;Rees et al 2010). In our data, this species seemed to be almost exclusively confined to pristine mires.…”

Section: Restoration and Antssupporting

confidence: 41%

The effects of drainage and restoration of pine mires on habitat structure, vegetation and ants

Punttila¹,

Autio²,

Kotiaho³

et al. 2016

Silva Fenn.

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Highlights • Mire drainage shifted floristic composition and ant assemblages towards forest communities. • Raising the water-table level by ditch filling and the thinning of trees affected mire communities positively already 1-3 years after the start of restoration. • The extent of tree cover, the coverage of Sphagnum mosses and the water-table level were major determinants of ant assemblage structure.

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Section: Restoration and Antssupporting

confidence: 41%

The effects of drainage and restoration of pine mires on habitat structure, vegetation and ants

Punttila¹,

Autio²,

Kotiaho³

et al. 2016

Silva Fenn.

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“…We conducted a literature search by species for traits potentially important to explain the elevation distribution of our species (Bernard, 1968;Della Santa, 1994; http://www.antweb.org/, Cherix & Higashi, 1979;Dethier & Cherix, 1982;Verhaege et al ., 1984;Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990;De Biseau & Couvreur, 1994;Seppa, 1994Seppa, , 1996Gertsch et al ., 1995;Dettorre et al ., 1997;Cherix et al ., 2006;Aron et al ., 2009;Rees et al ., 2010;Table S2). We found that potentially relevant traits had been measured in all of the species found in our transect; these traits were: (i) the social structure of the nest (monogyny vs. polygyny), (ii) the mean size of the workers of the species, (iii) the type of nest; built from vegetal debris or dug in the soil (Cherix et al ., 2006), and (iv) whether the nymph develops with or without a cocoon.…”

Section: Functional Trait Collection and Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Functional diversity decreases with temperature in high elevation ant fauna

Reymond

Purcell

Cherix

et al. 2013

Ecological Entomology

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1. Severe environmental conditions filter community species compositions, forming clines of functional diversity along environmental gradients. Here, the changes in functional diversity in ant assemblages with severe environmental conditions in the Swiss Alps were investigated.2. Eight sites were sampled along an elevation gradient (1800-2550 m). The variation in functional diversity was analysed along an elevation gradient considering four traits: social structure (monogynous vs. polygynous), worker size, pupal development, and nest structure.3. Ant species richness and functional diversity decreased with decreasing temperature. Species found in colder habitats tended to live in subterranean nests rather than in mounds and exhibit a polymorphism in queen number, either within or across populations. The phylogenetic diversity did not decrease at colder temperature: Formicinae and Myrmicinae occupied the full range of elevations investigated.4. An insulation experiment indicated that mounds are more thermally insulated against the cold compared with soil. The absence of a mound-building ant from high elevations probably results from a reduction in the amount of vegetal materials provided by coniferous trees.5. More severe abiotic conditions at higher elevations act as a filter on ant assemblages, directly through physiological tolerances to the abiotic conditions and indirectly as the vegetation necessary for nest building shifts with elevation.

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“…; Rees et al. ). By contrast, the long‐range dispersal of females in monogynous species usually leads to no significant population viscosity (Chapuisat et al.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In these species, new colonies are frequently initiated by budding, a process whereby queens leave their parental nest with workers to initiate a new colony nearby (short-ranged dispersal). Several studies have revealed that limited dispersal of queens in polygynous species is frequently associated with significant population viscosity (Pamilo and Rosengren 1984 ; Seppä and Pamilo 1995 ; Chapuisat and Keller 1999 ; Giraud et al 2000 ; Liautard and Keller 2001 ; Fournier et al 2002 ; Rüppell et al 2003 ; Zhu et al 2003 ; Zinck et al 2007 ; Seppä et al 2009 ; Rees et al 2010 ). By contrast, the long-range dispersal of females in monogynous species usually leads to no significant population viscosity (Chapuisat et al 1997 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Little effect of seasonal constraints on population genetic structure in eusocial paper wasps

Lengronne

Leadbeater

Patalano

et al. 2012

Ecology and Evolution

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Climate has long been suggested to affect population genetic structures of eusocial insect societies. For instance, Hamilton [Journal of Theoretical Biology 7 (1964) 17] discusses whether temperate and tropical eusocial insects may show differences in population-level genetic structure and viscosity, and how this might relate to differences in the degree of synchrony in their life cycles or modes of nest founding. Despite the importance of Hamilton's 1964 papers, this specific idea has not been tested in actual populations of wasps, probably due to the paucity of studies on tropical species. Here, we compare colony and population genetic structures in two species of primitively eusocial paper wasps with contrasting ecologies: the tropical species Polistes canadensis and the temperate species P. dominulus. Our results provide important clarifications of Hamilton's discussion. Specifically, we show that the genetic structures of the temperate and tropical species were very similar, indicating that seasonality does not greatly affect population viscosity or inbreeding. For both species, the high genetic differentiation between nests suggests strong selection at the nest level to live with relatives, whereas low population viscosity and low genetic differentiation between nest aggregations might reflect balancing selection to disperse, avoiding competition with relatives. Overall, our study suggests no prevalence of seasonal constraints of the life cycle in affecting the population genetic structure of eusocial paper wasps. These conclusions are likely to apply also to other primitively eusocial insects, such as halictine bees. They also highlight how selection for a kin structure that promotes altruism can override potential effects of ecology in eusocial insects.

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Genetic structure of the Black Bog Ant (Formica picea Nylander) in the United Kingdom

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

The effects of drainage and restoration of pine mires on habitat structure, vegetation and ants

The effects of drainage and restoration of pine mires on habitat structure, vegetation and ants

Functional diversity decreases with temperature in high elevation ant fauna

Little effect of seasonal constraints on population genetic structure in eusocial paper wasps

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