Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Having a wide geographical distribution and, as an engineering species, actively transforming the landscapes they inhabit, ants have a significant impact on the environment, creating new biogenic landforms and changing a number of its parameters, including biotic ones. This review is devoted to the consideration of the diverse environment-forming activities of ants in different regions of the world. An analysis of the scientific literature carried out in this context revealed a clear disproportion between the fairly good knowledge of tropical regions and the insufficient knowledge of temperate latitudes. The environment-forming activity of ants actively populating grasslands removed from agricultural use: steppes, continental and floodplain meadows of temperate latitudes has been especially poorly studied, which determines the undoubted priority of this area of research.
Authors: Mikhaleiko, Bogdan A., Babenko, Andrei S., Khovalyg, Aldynay O., Mongush, Sayana D., Maria I. Dongak, Kanzivaa, Svetlana O., Ondar, Sergey O., Kirpotin, Sergey N.
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
Funder: Russian Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W6930427313