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The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Paraguay ant collection includes specimens collected in the dry
Chaco region. The main goal of this collection was to study the
response of ant
communities to an aridity gradient ranging from 1000 to 350mm of
annual rainfall.
The objective of this website is to provide rapidly
information about the numerous morphospecies (unnamed species diagnosed
by standard taxonomic procedures) collected and to provide
detailed data about the ant distribution and morphology.
The information provided is under the form of scanning
electron microscope pictures, color pictures and taxonomic keys.
This website is developed with the support of the Belgian
Biodiversity Platform, a Belgian
Science Policy initiative. The dataset is also available
through the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility. |
