A research team estimated this in 2022 from 489 studies across all continents. Their biomass exceeds that of all wild birds and mammals combined. Of the ground-dwelling ants, most live in the tropics and subtropics.
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✦ New research Nº 050 · Nature
Ants have farmed fungi for millions of years.
They started about 66 million years ago. Dated family trees of fungi and ants reveal when it began.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nº 112 · Nature
Earth has nearly ten times more trees than thought.
A map built from over 400,000 ground measurements shows: the old estimate was off by an order of magnitude. Guess yourself.
