What are the climatic tolerances of ants?

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Dmitry Telnov

Here is some information about NE Asian species of Formicidae, a monograph in Russian which can be translated as "Overwintering and cold-resistance in ants of NE Asia".

You can order the monograph here: https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/3780962/

Some chapters are discussed in this blog: http://antclub.org/node/2645

James Des Lauriers

Hi Chris;

Here is a paper that might be helpful.

Global Change Biology (2011), doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02542.x

Good luck, Jim des Lauriers

Angela Amarillo

I would suggest you to revise the papers by Flavio Roces, and Rainer Wirth. They have a large number of publications regarding foraging and physiology of ants related to temperatura.

Chris Robson

Thanks for all of your suggestions.

It would seem that there is no published absolute temperature tolerance for the Formicidae as a whole e.g. 'no ants can survive temperatures above 45°C or below -5°C'. However, using the literature it seems it might be possible to construct one. Diamond et al, 2012 would seem to indicate a CTmax of around 57°C. As for a CTmin I'm unsure but I'm sure I could find one.

That said however, I guess I should rephrase my question a little; I'm not really interested in the CTmax/min of individuals but the CTmax/min of colonies. Essentially I'd like to be able to know that when an ant nest is located it indicates an MAT of between -5°C and 45°C for example. Any thoughts on what are the climatically coldest and warmest known ant colonies?

Thanks again!