There are over 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – and they weigh more than wild birds and mammals combined
Invertebrates are “the little things that run the world”. So researchers decided to count all the ants on Earth, to...
Dr Mark Wong is a Forrest Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Western Australia. His interests lie in community and invasion ecology. Dr Wong's research uses trait-based approaches to understand the causes and consequences of changing biodiversity, especially for insects and their kin. Dr Wong previously completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford on a prestigious Clarendon Scholarship, where his research on the ecology of ant invasions in the tropics was supported by funding from the National Geographic Society and a Varley Gradwell Fellowship. Dr Wong currently serves on the editorial board of the journals Insect Conservation and Diversity and Asian Myrmecology.
Invertebrates are “the little things that run the world”. So researchers decided to count all the ants on Earth, to...