Terry J. Ord

Oct 18, 2024 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Terry J. Ord |Iker Irisarri |Elizabeth A. Surovic

1 INTRODUCTION Transitions in habitat are a critical ecological cog in the evolutionary engine of species diversification. Populations that establish in novel environments are invariably exposed to unique selection regimes that promote adaptive differentiation (e.g. Brewer et al., 2015; Lescak et al., 2015; McGee & Wainwright, 2013; Rainey & Travisano, 1998; Rosenblum, 2006).

Jun 15, 2023 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Terry J. Ord

Data collection The population of meat ants, I. purpureus, was studied on a private property near the locality of Wollar in New South Wales, Australia. Research licences or permits were not required to undertake this work. The property consisted of large areas of cleared pasture previously used for low-density cattle farming up to 2007. This grassland transitioned abruptly to remnant dry sclerophyll eucalyptus woodland, along the boundary of which meat ant colonies often located their nests.