Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 231-269) e índice CONTENIDO: Biodiversity Studies, Monitoring, and Ants: An Overview / Leeanne E. Alonso, Donat Agosti -- A Primer on Ant Ecology / Michael Kaspari -- A Global Ecology of Rainforest Ants: Functional Groups in Relation to Environmental Stress and Disturbance / Alan N. Andersen -- The Interactions of Ants with Other Organisms / Ted R. Schultz, Terrence P. McGlynn -- Diversity of Ants / William L. Brown, Jr. -- Ants as Indicators of Diversity / Leeanne E. Alonso -- Using Ants to Monitor Environmental Change / Michael Kaspari, Jonathan D. Majer -- Broad-Scale Patterns of Diversity in Leaf Litter Ant Communities / Philip S. Ward -- Field Techniques for the Study of Ground-Dwelling Ants: An Overview, Description, and Evaluation [et al.] / Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Donat Agosti, Leeanne E. Alonso -- Sampling Effort and Choice of Methods [et al.] / Jacques H. C. Delabie, Brian L. Fisher, Jonathan D. Majer -- Specimen Processing: Building and Curating an Ant Collection / John E. Lattke -- Major Regional and Type Collections of Ants (Formicidae) of the World and Sources for the Identification of Ant Species / C. Roberto F. Brandao -- What to Do with the Data / John T. Longino -- The ALL Protocol: A Standard Protocol for the Collection of Ground-Dwelling Ants / Donat Agosti, Leeanne E. Alonso -- Applying the ALL Protocol: Selected Case Studies [et al.] / Brian L. Fisher, Annette K. F. Malsch, Raghavendra Gadagkar -- App. 1 List and Sources of Materials for Ant Sampling Methods -- App. 2 Ant Survey Data Sheet -- App. 3 List of Materials for Ant Specimen Processing.
