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How Ants Help Our Forests
June 4, 2012
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A new Field Guide to the Ants of New England, co-written by Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison, has led to a feature in Northern Woodlands on the ways that ants enrich our forests and our lives.
- Read the article: Wonderful Woodland Ants (.pdf).
- Read the new scientific paper: Ants as biological indicators in north-temperate cold biomes.
- Print Aaron Ellison's checklist of the ants (more than 130 species!) of New England.
- Pre-order the field guide.
- Learn more about ant studies at the Harvard Forest.
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