Ant Survey, South East Queensland Peri-urban SuperSite, Samford, Core 1 ha, 2016

Ants are Australia’s dominant faunal group in terms of biomass and energy flow. They occupy all trophic levels, act as ecosystem engineers, feature in many mutualistic interactions with plants, and are a key food resource for many vertebrates. Ants are also Australia’s best studied insect group in terms of biogeography and community dynamics. They are the most widely used invertebrate bio-indicators in environmental assessment and monitoring. Ants were collected in Apr and Nov 2016 and stored in ethanol for taxonomic assessment.蚂蚁是澳大利亚在生物量与能量流动维度上占主导地位的动物类群。它们占据所有营养级（trophic levels），作为生态系统工程师（ecosystem engineers）发挥功能，参与诸多与植物的互利共生相互作用（mutualistic interactions），同时也是众多脊椎动物（vertebrates）的关键食物资源。 在生物地理学（biogeography）与群落动态（community dynamics）研究领域，蚂蚁亦是澳大利亚被研究最为深入的昆虫类群。它们是环境评估与监测工作中应用最广泛的无脊椎动物（invertebrate）生物指示物（bio-indicators）。 本数据集涵盖的蚂蚁样本采集于2016年4月与11月，随后被保存于乙醇中以开展分类学鉴定（taxonomic assessment）。