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  1. Urban Lasius niger ants more readily accept low concentration sucrose solution than rural ants

    Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  2. Impact of Biogenic Structures of the Soil-Nesting Ants Lasius niger and Lasius flavus on the Soil Microarthropod Community in Urban Green Spaces

    Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  3. Raised from Decline: Reassessment of the Occurrence of Lasius neglectus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an Invasive Ant Species, in Warsaw, Poland

    Article • Polish Journal of Ecology, June 2025, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  4. The Aging of Urban Gardens Can Enhance Their Role as Refuges for Local Ant Species

    Article • Diversity, January 2025, MDPI AG

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  5. Playing with the Dead: The Corpses of Dominant Territorials Inhibit the Activity of Subordinate Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Article • Polish Journal of Ecology, December 2024, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  6. Peculiar Polydomy in Wood Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): An Auxiliary Nest Seven Metres Underground

    Article • Annales Zoologici, September 2024, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  7. Biotic challenges in the city: Dietary restrictions and body fat content of female sexuals in urban ant populations

    Article • April 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  8. Urban abiotic stressors drive changes in the foraging activity and colony growth of the black garden ant Lasius niger

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2024, Elsevier

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  9. Adaptation to new resources: interaction between introduced psyllids and native and exotic ants in Eucalyptus plantations in NW Spain

    Article • Arthropod-Plant Interactions, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  10. Behavioral and morphological traits influencing variation in task performance of Camponotus vagus ants

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  11. Intricacies of the Biology of Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Article • Annales Zoologici, June 2023, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  12. Alate Gynes of Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Foraging Trails – A Peculiar Way of Dispersal

    Article • Annales Zoologici, June 2022, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  13. Interspecific attraction between ground-nesting songbirds and ants: the role of nest-site selection

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

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  14. Wood ants as biological control of the forest pest beetles Ips spp.

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

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  15. Solving a long-standing enigma: Myrmicinosporidium durum belongs to Blastocladiomycota, a phylum of primarily aquatic fungi

    Article • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, September 2021, Elsevier

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  16. The influence of age and development temperature on the temperature-related foraging risk of Formica cinerea ants

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  17. Unexpected distribution of subordinates around nests of the wood ants

    Article • Acta Oecologica, May 2021, Elsevier

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  18. Correction to: Behavioral responses to numerical differences when two invasive ants meet: the case of Lasius neglectus and Linepithema humile

    Article • Biological Invasions, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  19. Behavioral responses to numerical differences when two invasive ants meet: the case of Lasius neglectus and Linepithema humile

    Article • Biological Invasions, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  20. Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  21. Large- and Small-Scale Environmental Factors Drive Distributions of Ant Mound Size Across a Latitudinal Gradient

    Article • Insects, June 2020, MDPI AG

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  22. Three categories of urban green areas and the effect of their different management on the communities of ants, spiders and harvestmen

    Article • Urban Ecosystems, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  23. Ants trapped for years in an old bunker; survival by cannibalism and eventual escape

    Article • Journal of Hymenoptera Research, October 2019, Pensoft Publishers

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  24. Alate gyne of the ant Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (L.) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) follows foraging trail to aphids

    Article • Journal of Hymenoptera Research, August 2019, Pensoft Publishers

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  25. The influence of colony traits on the collective behaviour of Myrmica scabrinodis ants

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, April 2019, Wiley

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  26. Colony size and brood investment of Myrmica rubra ant colonies in habitats invaded by goldenrods

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  27. Ant communities andSolidagoplant invasion: Environmental properties and food sources

    Article • Entomological Science, February 2018, Wiley

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  28. Myrmicinosporidium durum in Poland

    Article • Acta Parasitologica, January 2017, De Gruyter

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  29. Consequences of the arms race between Maculinea teleius social parasite and Myrmica host ants for myrmecophilous butterfly conservation

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral

  30. Differential impact of two dominant Formica ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on subordinates in temperate Europe

    Article • Journal of Hymenoptera Research, June 2016, Pensoft Publishers

    PhD Gema Trigos Peral