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21592
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963
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79

Overview

Alan N. Andersen is affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their specialization covers key subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change. The primary topics of their work include Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Fossil Insects in Amber, and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Recent publications by Alan N. Andersen demonstrate the breadth of their research focus:

  • "Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces", 2021, Ecological Applications
  • "Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration", 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • "Faunal responses to fire in Australian tropical savannas: Insights from field experiments and their lessons for conservation management", 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Arboreality drives heat tolerance while elevation drives cold tolerance in tropical rainforest ants", 2021, Ecology
  • "Historical biogeography shapes functional ecology: Inter-continental contrasts in responses of savanna ant communities to stress and disturbance", 2022, Journal of Biogeography

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Andersen include François Brassard, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Karen Neves, and Brett P. Murphy.

Publication venues frequently featuring Andersen's work are Diversity, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Diversity and Distributions, Ecology, and Journal of Biogeography.

Best Publications

  • A classification of Australian ant communities, based on functional groups which parallel plant life-forms in relation to stress and disturbance.

    Alan N. Andersen

  • Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

    Catherine L. Parr;Caroline E.R. Lehmann;Caroline E.R. Lehmann;William J. Bond;William A. Hoffmann

  • Value of long-term ecological studies

    David B. Lindenmayer;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Alan Andersen;David Bowman

  • Ants show the way Down Under: invertebrates as bioindicators in land management

    Alan N. Andersen;Jonathan D. Majer

  • Functional groups and patterns of organization in North American ant communities: a comparison with Australia

    Alan Andersen

  • Using ants as bioindicators in land management: simplifying assessment of ant community responses

    Alan N. Andersen;Benjamin D. Hoffmann;Warren J. Müller;Anthony D. Griffiths

  • Patch mosaic burning for biodiversity conservation: a critique of the pyrodiversity paradigm.

    Catherine L. Parr;Alan N. Andersen

  • Fire frequency and biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical savannas: implications from the Kapalga fire experiment

    Alan N. Andersen;Garry D. Cook;Laurie K. Corbett;Michael M. Douglas

  • Using Ants as bioindicators: Multiscale Issues in Ant Community Ecology

    Alan Andersen

  • Responses of ants to disturbance in Australia, with particular reference to functional groups

    Benjamin D. Hoffmann;Alan N. Andersen

  • Responses of ant communities to dry sulfur deposition from mining emissions in semi‐arid tropical Australia, with implications for the use of functional groups

    Benjamin D. Hoffmann;Benjamin D. Hoffmann;Anthony D. Griffiths;Anthony D. Griffiths;Alan N. Andersen

  • Responses of ground-foraging ant communities to three experimental fire regimes in a Savanna Forest of Tropical Australia

    Alan N. Andersen

  • Regulation of "momentary" diversity by dominant species in exceptionally rich ant communities of the Australian seasonal tropics.

    Alan N. Andersen

  • How important is seed predation to recruitment in stable populations of long-lived perennials?

    Alan N. Andersen

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

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?

    T. D. Penman;T. D. Penman;F. J. Christie;F. J. Christie;A. N. Andersen;A. N. Andersen;R. A. Bradstock;R. A. Bradstock

  • Use of terrestrial invertebrates for biodiversity monitoring in Australian rangelands, with particular reference to ants

    Alan N. Andersen;Alaric Fisher;Ben D. Hoffmann;John L. Read

  • Ants as bioindicators of habitat disturbance: validation of the functional group model for Australia's humid tropics

    Joshua R. King;Alan N. Andersen;Asher D. Cutter

  • Measuring more of biodiversity: Genus richness as a surrogate for species richness in Australian ant faunas

    Alan N Andersen

  • REGULATION OF "MOMENTARY" DIVERSITY BY DOMINANT SPECIES IN EXCEPTIONALLY RICH ANT COMMUNITIES OF THE

    Australian Seasonal Tropics;Alan N. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Inara R. Leal
Inara R. Leal Federal University of Pernambuco
John C. Z. Woinarski
John C. Z. Woinarski Charles Darwin University
Samantha A. Setterfield
Samantha A. Setterfield University of Western Australia
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos Federal University of Uberlândia
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael M. Douglas
Michael M. Douglas University of Western Australia
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Garry D. Cook
Garry D. Cook Arafurica Pty Ltd
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London

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