List of works - Benoit Guénard

A Checklist of known ant species of Laos (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ⬇️

scientific article

A global database of ant species abundances

scientific article

A large‐scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological and morphological drivers of sampling bias

scientific article published in 2022

A new (old), invasive ant in the hardwood forests of eastern North America and its potentially widespread impacts ⬇️

scientific article

A new species and new record of the cryptobiotic ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Hong Kong

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

A new subterranean species and an updated checklist of Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Macao SAR, China, with a key to species of the Greater Bay Area

scientific article

ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

scientific article published in 2021

Activity niches outperform thermal physiological limits in predicting global ant distributions

scientific article published in 2020

Additions to the checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru

scientific article (publication date: 10 November 2015)

Aenictus seletarius, a New Species of Hypogaeic Army Ant from Singapore, with an Updated Key to theAenictus minutulusSpecies Group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Southeast Asia

scientific article published in March 2016

Alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: the first database of records

scientific article published on 02 January 2021

An Overview of the Species and Ecological Diversity of Ants

article

An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

scientific article

Ant body size mediates functional performance and species interactions in carrion decomposer communities

scientific article published in 2022

Ants in the city, a preliminary checklist of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) in Macau, one of the most heavily urbanized regions of the world ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2017

Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Assembling a species-area curve through colonization, speciation and human-mediated introduction

Borneo, fANTastique! ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2015

Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole

scientific article

Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships

scientific article

Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island

scientific article

Climate change may boost the invasion of the Asian needle ant ⬇️

scientific article

Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

scientific article

Conservation implications of divergent global patterns of ant and vertebrate diversity

article

Descriptions of a new species and the gyne in the rarely collected arboreal genera Paratopula and Rotastruma (Hymenopytera: Formicidae) from Hong Kong, with a discussion on their ecology ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2016

Disruption of ant-seed dispersal mutualisms by the invasive Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis)

article

Diversity begets diversity: Low resource heterogeneity reduces the diversity of nut‐nesting ants in rubber plantations

scientific article published in 2021

Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion

article by Xavier Arnan et al published 30 May 2018 in Global Change Biology

Ecological and socio-economic impacts of the red import fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), on urban agricultural ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Evaluating the conservation value of sacred forests for ant taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in highly degraded landscapes

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in the hyperdiverse ant genus<i>Pheidole</i>

scientific article published in 2019

Extreme polygyny in the previously unstudied subtropical ant Temnothorax tuscaloosae with implications for the biogeographic study of the evolution of polygyny

scholarly article by Benoit Guénard et al published 29 July 2016 in Insectes Sociaux

Fine-scale heterogeneity across Manhattan's urban habitat mosaic is associated with variation in ant composition and richness

article

First confirmed record of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Malay Peninsula: description of a new species and a key to Myrmecina species from Sundaland

article

First record of the emerging global pest Brachymyrmex patagonicus Mayr 1868 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from continental Asia ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2018

First record of the genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Hong Kong, with descriptions of two new species

scientific article published in 2023

Genomic signature of shifts in selection in a sub-alpine ant and its physiological adaptations

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Geographic Gradients

article

Geographic spread of Vollenhovia emeryi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2015

Global and Temporal Spread of a Taxonomically Challenging Invasive ant, Brachyponera chinensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

article

Global generic richness and distribution: new maps of the world of ants with examples of their use in the context of Asia ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2010

Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

article

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature.

Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat

scientific article

Global phylogenetic structure of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole reveals the repeated evolution of macroecological patterns

scientific article

Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

High Diversity in Urban Areas: How Comprehensive Sampling Reveals High Ant Species Richness within One of the Most Urbanized Regions of the World

scientific article published on 04 August 2021

High diversity in an urban habitat: are some animal assemblages resilient to long-term anthropogenic change?

article

Inbreeding tolerance as a pre-adapted trait for invasion success in the invasive ant Brachyponera chinensis

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Integration of global fossil and modern biodiversity data reveals dynamism and stasis in ant macroecological patterns

Intraspecific Thievery in the AntEctatomma ruidumis Mediated by Food Availability

Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution

scientific article

Leptanilla hypodracos sp. n., a new species of the cryptic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Singapore, with new distribution data and an updated key to Oriental Leptanilla species

scientific article

Lost in the city: discovery of the rare ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Macau with description of Leptanilla macauensis sp. nov. ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2018

Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants.

scientific article

Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

May furtive predation provide enemy free space in ant-tended aphid colonies?

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological reassessments of thief ants identify a new potential case of biological invasions ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

New 30 m resolution Hong Kong climate, vegetation, and topography rasters indicate greater spatial variation than global grids within an urban mosaic

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

New records of ant species from Yunnan, China

scientific article

Omnivorous ants are less carnivorous and more protein-limited in exotic plantations

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant. ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Rediscovery of the rare ant genus Bannapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae) and description of the worker caste

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2013)

Regional invasion history and land use shape the prevalence of non‐native species in local assemblages

scientific article published in July 2024

Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader ⬇️

scientific article

Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide ⬇️

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Reorganization of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic ant biodiversity after conversion to rubber plantation

scientific article published on 09 May 2016

Review of Psenulus species (Hymenoptera, Psenidae) in the Hong Kong SAR, with description of three new species ⬇️

scientific article published in 2020

Review of ants from the genus Polyrhachis Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) in Hong Kong and Macau, with notes on their natural history ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Review of the genus Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Hong Kong with the description of three new species and the addition of five native and four introduced species records ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Secondary forest succession buffers extreme temperature impacts on subtropical Asian ants

scientific article published on 16 July 2021

Shuffling leaf litter samples produces more accurate and precise snapshots of terrestrial arthropod community composition.

scientific article

Strumigenys perplexa (Smith, 1876) (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) a new exotic ant to Europe with establishment in Guernsey, Channel Islands

scientific article

Tandem carrying, a new foraging strategy in ants: description, function, and adaptive significance relative to other described foraging strategies

scientific article published on 10 June 2011

Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

Testing the reliability and ecological implications of ramping rates in the measurement of Critical Thermal maximum

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

The Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

The Leptogenys Roger, 1861 (Formicidae, Ponerinae) of Hong Kong SAR with additional records from Guangdong, China

scientific article published in 2024

The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth

scientific article published on 4 October 2022

The ant genus Myopias Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

The cryptic impacts of invasion: functional homogenization of tropical ant communities by invasive fire ants

scientific article

The ecological implications of rubber‐based agroforestry: Insect conservation and invasion control

scientific article

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

scientific article published in Nature

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants

scientific article published in 2023

The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide

scientific article published on 12 April 2023

Three new species of Rhaphium Meigen, 1803 from mangroves in Hong Kong (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Rhaphiinae)

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Timeless standards for species delimitation

scientific article (publication date: 8 July 2016)

Toward understanding the predatory ant genus Myopias (Formicidae: Ponerinae), including a key to global species, male-based generic diagnosis, and new species description

article

Tracing the rise of ants - out of the ground

scientific article published in 2013

Trait-based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Trait-mediated competition drives an ant invasion and alters functional diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Trait‐similarity and trait‐hierarchy jointly determine fine‐scale spatial associations of resident and invasive ant species

scientific article

Updating the taxonomy of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in China with descriptions of three new species ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

article

Visualizing and interacting with large-volume biodiversity data using client–server web-mapping applications: The design and implementation of antmaps.org

scholarly article by Julia Janicki et al published March 2016 in Ecological Informatics

Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity

scientific article published on 09 February 2022

List of works by Benoit Guénard

A Checklist of known ant species of Laos (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ⬇️

A global database of ant species abundances

A large‐scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological and morphological drivers of sampling bias

A new (old), invasive ant in the hardwood forests of eastern North America and its potentially widespread impacts ⬇️

A new species and new record of the cryptobiotic ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Hong Kong

A new subterranean species and an updated checklist of Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Macao SAR, China, with a key to species of the Greater Bay Area

ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

Activity niches outperform thermal physiological limits in predicting global ant distributions

Additions to the checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru

Aenictus seletarius, a New Species of Hypogaeic Army Ant from Singapore, with an Updated Key to theAenictus minutulusSpecies Group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Southeast Asia

Alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: the first database of records

An Overview of the Species and Ecological Diversity of Ants

An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Ant body size mediates functional performance and species interactions in carrion decomposer communities

Ants in the city, a preliminary checklist of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) in Macau, one of the most heavily urbanized regions of the world ⬇️

Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot

Assembling a species-area curve through colonization, speciation and human-mediated introduction

Borneo, fANTastique! ⬇️

Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole

Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships

Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island

Climate change may boost the invasion of the Asian needle ant ⬇️

Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

Conservation implications of divergent global patterns of ant and vertebrate diversity

Descriptions of a new species and the gyne in the rarely collected arboreal genera Paratopula and Rotastruma (Hymenopytera: Formicidae) from Hong Kong, with a discussion on their ecology ⬇️

Disruption of ant-seed dispersal mutualisms by the invasive Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis)

Diversity begets diversity: Low resource heterogeneity reduces the diversity of nut‐nesting ants in rubber plantations

Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion

Ecological and socio-economic impacts of the red import fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), on urban agricultural ecosystems

Evaluating the conservation value of sacred forests for ant taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in highly degraded landscapes

Evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in the hyperdiverse ant genus<i>Pheidole</i>

Extreme polygyny in the previously unstudied subtropical ant Temnothorax tuscaloosae with implications for the biogeographic study of the evolution of polygyny

Fine-scale heterogeneity across Manhattan's urban habitat mosaic is associated with variation in ant composition and richness

First confirmed record of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Malay Peninsula: description of a new species and a key to Myrmecina species from Sundaland

First record of the emerging global pest Brachymyrmex patagonicus Mayr 1868 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from continental Asia ⬇️

First record of the genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Hong Kong, with descriptions of two new species

Genomic signature of shifts in selection in a sub-alpine ant and its physiological adaptations

Geographic Gradients

Geographic spread of Vollenhovia emeryi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ⬇️

Global and Temporal Spread of a Taxonomically Challenging Invasive ant, Brachyponera chinensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

Global generic richness and distribution: new maps of the world of ants with examples of their use in the context of Asia ⬇️

Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature.

Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat

Global phylogenetic structure of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole reveals the repeated evolution of macroecological patterns

Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools ⬇️

High Diversity in Urban Areas: How Comprehensive Sampling Reveals High Ant Species Richness within One of the Most Urbanized Regions of the World

High diversity in an urban habitat: are some animal assemblages resilient to long-term anthropogenic change?

Inbreeding tolerance as a pre-adapted trait for invasion success in the invasive ant Brachyponera chinensis

Integration of global fossil and modern biodiversity data reveals dynamism and stasis in ant macroecological patterns

Intraspecific Thievery in the AntEctatomma ruidumis Mediated by Food Availability

Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution

Leptanilla hypodracos sp. n., a new species of the cryptic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Singapore, with new distribution data and an updated key to Oriental Leptanilla species

Lost in the city: discovery of the rare ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Macau with description of Leptanilla macauensis sp. nov. ⬇️

Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants.

Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity

May furtive predation provide enemy free space in ant-tended aphid colonies?

Molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological reassessments of thief ants identify a new potential case of biological invasions ⬇️

New 30 m resolution Hong Kong climate, vegetation, and topography rasters indicate greater spatial variation than global grids within an urban mosaic

New records of ant species from Yunnan, China

Omnivorous ants are less carnivorous and more protein-limited in exotic plantations

Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant. ⬇️

Rediscovery of the rare ant genus Bannapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae) and description of the worker caste

Regional invasion history and land use shape the prevalence of non‐native species in local assemblages

Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader ⬇️

Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide ⬇️

Reorganization of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic ant biodiversity after conversion to rubber plantation

Review of Psenulus species (Hymenoptera, Psenidae) in the Hong Kong SAR, with description of three new species ⬇️

Review of ants from the genus Polyrhachis Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) in Hong Kong and Macau, with notes on their natural history ⬇️

Review of the genus Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Hong Kong with the description of three new species and the addition of five native and four introduced species records ⬇️

Secondary forest succession buffers extreme temperature impacts on subtropical Asian ants

Shuffling leaf litter samples produces more accurate and precise snapshots of terrestrial arthropod community composition.

Strumigenys perplexa (Smith, 1876) (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) a new exotic ant to Europe with establishment in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Tandem carrying, a new foraging strategy in ants: description, function, and adaptive significance relative to other described foraging strategies

Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species

Testing the reliability and ecological implications of ramping rates in the measurement of Critical Thermal maximum