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antscience: How many insects and ants are on the planet? And what do we know about ant biomass? Check out our new Commentary Arcticle in PNAS https://t.co/3RoMxq3Htg

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antscience: Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world’s tallest tropical forest https://t.co/8elSFk6yxv

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antscience: Did you ever wonder how much termites and ants change soil properties in and around their nest in tropical habitats? Here is a new study from our lab highlighting that termites are more important in this respect. https://t.co/fvpR0AKk7F

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antscience: New study on Overbeckia enigmatic genus from tree canopies and the story behind https://t.co/mJ7TX0OOlb

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antscience: How to sample and map the dominant canopy ant structure across whole forest plots? See our new Methodological article using as an example the New Guinean ant communities https://t.co/FfRrpYdzSE

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antscience: Can tropical mountain ants change community structure and color just in about a decade due to climate change, or it is rather a simple sampling bias? https://t.co/66srVD6Lw1

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antscience: RT @OndrejMottl: My new paper showing how aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest.
With Jacob Yombai, @Liklikmasalai, Maurice Leponce, George Weiblen, Petr Klimes. https://t.co/8qjtRL5GzG

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antscience: A position for Postdoctoral Researcher is available to work on the project: Does competition really structure ant communities in tropical forest canopies? https://t.co/WDeQ0Ao9fF Come to work with us on exciting canopy ants in Papua New Guinea

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antscience: Tom from our lab speaks of ant-plant mutualism and other interactions among plants and insects https://t.co/H5yKpW6noZ

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antscience: Another one from prof. Laurent Keller on ant behavior is available here https://t.co/bCJGlzAPOZ

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antscience: Some popularisation of our ant lab in Czech Rep., and the ant science' peculiarities, and beyond. https://t.co/9Bt7KzCXIE

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antscience: New exciting positions (1 postdoc and 3 phds) are available at our lab to work on new ant-related projects in New Guinea and Borneo: Deadline to apply 15th January, 2021. https://t.co/WDeQ0Ao9fF

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antscience: More caterpillars in the temperate forests than in tropical rain forests.
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antscience: Benefits of ant occupation for ant-trees are reduced in oil palm compared with heavily logged forest in Sabah, Borneo, found our postdoc Mickal Houadria in his project at S.A.F.E.
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antscience: Have you ever wonder, how many canopy arthropods you may find per piece of a forest, across temperate and tropics? Check out our new publication in Ecology Letters that took 14 years to collect such standardized data, led by Ondrej. https://t.co/HL9aGCfhRm

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antscience: First cross-elevational comparison of canopy ant diversity, their nest habits, and community structures have been published by our students nicplow and MottlOndrej in Ecography https://t.co/UdYtkVe35K and Ecopshere https://t.co/9nZU58oLg6. A…

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antscience: RT Myrmecos: We interrupt your political debate coverage to bring you this Pseudoneoponera ant which, when threatened, emits large quantities of foam from its butt. https://t.co/0c65YRXM5m

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antscience: RT antscience: MottlOndrej published a new study in Biotropica about stratification and spatial manipulation of artificial bamboo nests in New Guinea primary lowland forest. Big congratulations to Ondrej for his very first paper! https://t.co/RJkykqlzCw

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antscience: MottlOndrej published a new study in Biotropica about stratification and spatial manipulation of artificial bamboo nests in New Guinea primary lowland forest. Big congratulations to Ondrej for his very first paper! https://t.co/RJkykqlzCw

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antscience: New position available in our Ant lab with Tom! https://t.co/9tB0xlEmeF

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Apply now for a PhD studentship in our group! "Testing impacts of ant-plant protection mutualisms on plant community dynamics in Papua New Guinea". https://t.co/WkEDBBUQWd Application deadline 28th December 2018.