Catherine L. Parr

Research interests

Publications

• What do you mean, ‘megafire’?

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13499

• Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

  Science · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo3856

• The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

  Science Advances · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abp9908

• The response of ants to climate change

  Global Change Biology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16140

• The impact of invertebrate decomposers on plants and soil

  New Phytologist · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17553

• Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

  Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb0355

• Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau9565

• Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay7976

• Cross-boundary human impacts compromise the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav0564

• Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals

  Evolutionary Ecology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-018-9927-6

• The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0301-1

• Animal movements in fire‐prone landscapes

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12486

• Ants are the major agents of resource removal from tropical rainforests

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12728

• The underestimated biodiversity of tropical grassy biomes

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0319

• Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12516

• GlobalAnts : a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

  Insect Conservation and Diversity · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12211

• Contrasting species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages

  Journal of Biogeography · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12537

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

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.02.004

• How does habitat complexity affect ant foraging success? A test using functional measures on three continents

  Oecologia · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-010-1703-4

• Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

  Biological Conservation · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.012

• Competition and the Role of Dominant Ants

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544639.003.0005

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

  Ecology Letters · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01291.x

• Ant Diversity and Function in Disturbed and Changing Habitats

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544639.003.0008

• Patch Mosaic Burning for Biodiversity Conservation: a Critique of the Pyrodiversity Paradigm

  Conservation Biology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00492.x

• Response of African savanna ants to long‐term fire regimes

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00920.x

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