Ant Survey, South East Queensland Peri-urban SuperSite, Karawatha, Core 1 ha, 2014

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 2014 and stored in ethanol for taxonomic assessment.

就生物量与能量流动而言，蚂蚁是澳大利亚占主导地位的动物类群。它们占据所有营养级，作为生态系统工程师发挥功能，广泛参与与植物的互利共生互作，同时亦是众多脊椎动物的关键食物资源。就生物地理学与群落动态维度而言，蚂蚁是澳大利亚研究最为深入的昆虫类群，同时也是环境评估与监测领域应用最广泛的无脊椎动物生物指示物（bio-indicator）。
本数据集的蚂蚁样本采集于2014年，以乙醇保存，用于分类学评估。