Please share! 🙏
Recruiting a PhD student in Sydney in 2026 ✨🎓✨
Exciting fieldwork & experiments on ants in Australia 🐜
International and domestic applicants welcome 🌍
Details: markwongecology.com/join
#PhDPosition #GradSchool #Ecology #Zoology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invasive #Entomology #Ant

Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney!
Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜
🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia
🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome
markwongecology.com/join
#PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity
Pls share, thx 🙏

📰Published📰 When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants🐜

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Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems?

Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:

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Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems?

Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper in #BiologicalConservation: Artificial light at night has surprisingly limited effects on ant communities in a field experiment💡🐜 Research by fantastic students I had the pleasure of supervising at UWA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ClimateChange can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments

doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

#invasivespecies #ants

With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience

New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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New preprint:

Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night

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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

New preprint:

Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

A fun study in a unique ecosystem that never made it to my DPhil thesis but is finally(!) written up

It happens frequently. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

4/ 🧩 Fig. 1: Human Pressure > Climate & Geography
Our first key finding: Human pressure (as in human footprint) outweighs climate and geography, being responsible for 21.5% of species turnover and 20.6% of trait turnover.

Human activity reshapes biodiversity far beyond natural gradients. 🏙️🌾🌍

Check out our new preprint:

Human pressure homogenises #species and #traits globally

Congrats Sara!

Would love to be added, thank you! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Would love to be added, thanks Jane!

Would love to be added, thank you! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hello friends old and new, I’m an #ecologist and #entomologist interested in #traits and #invasions and #community and #macroecology. I have an inordinate fondness for #ants, the movers and shakers of ecosystems. Looking forward to connecting! 🌤️