Pune Alive : Ant Diversity 2000

Changes in the urban biodiversity can sometimes serve as vital signs of environmental change. Urban naturalists need not take pleasure in visiting just remote forests and wetlands, but monitor urban wildlife around them and strive to conserve it. 'Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity' is Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)'s latest initiative to monitor urban wildlife by recording the existing wealth and strive to conserve it. Ants deserve a special place in the study of ecology, including behaviour; given their species richness, social habits and high densities contributing much of the animal biomass on the earth. We tried to explore their distribution across a variety of habitat types around Pune city. This data set is from the 'Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity' in which documented occurrence records of 13 genera belonging to 4 sub-families of ants from Pune, Maharashtra, India.