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2025
41. Bochenski, W.S., Vicente, R.E., Bishop, T.R., and Izzo, T.J. (2025) Ant brightness and size determine seasonal vegetation occupation by ground-dwelling ants in an Amazon-Cerrado ecotone community. Ecological Entomology

40. Leahy, L., Chown, S.L., Riskas, H.L., Wright, I.J., Carlesso, A.G., Hammer, I.J., Sanders, N.J., Bishop, T.R., Parr, C.L., and Gibb, H. (2025) Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size. PNAS, 122 (29) e2501541122
 
39. Tercel, M.P.T.G., Cuff, J.P., Symondson, W.O.C., Moorhouse-Gann, R.J., Bishop, T.R., Cole, N.C., Jolin, E., Govier, B., Chambon, J., Mootoocurpen, R., Goder, M., and Vaughan, I.P. (2025) Threatened endemic arthropods and vertebrates partition their diets with non-native ants in an isolated island ecosystem. Ecology (in press)
 
38. Wilker, I., Bishop, T.R., Lasmar, C.J., Alves, D.V., Souza, L.G., Queiroz, A.C.M., Feitosa, R.M., Neudorf, A.C.A., Martins, M.F.O., Alves, G.P., Fontenele, L.K., Costa, M.M.S., and Ribas, C.R. (2025) The preference for energetic resources is positively associated with predatory activity in ants. Ecological Entomology
 
37. Mallett, S.L., Leahy, L., Vaughan, I., Klaftenberger, T., Cerdá, X., Wheatley, L., King, S., Leyshon, K., Wilker, I., Harrendence, K., Dawson, W., and Bishop, T.R. (2025) Automating thermal limits:  continuous, objective, and high-throughput thermal data for small mobile ectotherms. Journal of Thermal Biology, 104127

2024
36. Ewers, R.M., Orme, C.D.L, Pearse, W.D., [122 others], Bishop, T.R., Bicknell, J.E., Bernard, H, Basrur, S, Barclay, M.V.L, Barclay, H, Atton, G, Ancrenaz, M, Aldridge, D.C., Daniel, O, Reynolds, G and Banks-Leite, C. (2024) Ecological thresholds for adding degraded tropical rainforests to the conservation estate. Nature, 631, 808-813
 
35. Revely, L., Eggleton, P., Clement, R., Zhou, C. and Bishop, T.R. (2024) The diversity of social complexity in termites, Proceeding of the Royal Society B, 291: 20232791

34. Bishop T.R and Robertson M.P. (2024) Mountain habitats for insect conservation. In Pryke J.S., Samways, M.J., New, T.R., Cardoso, P., and Gaigher, R. (editors), Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation, Earthscan from Routledge
 
33. Hoenle, P.O., Plowman, N.S., Matos-Maravía, P., de Bello, F., Bishop, T.R., Libraa, M., Idigelf, C., Rimandaif, M. and Klimes, P. (2024) Forest disturbance increases functional diversity but decreases phylogenetic diversity of an arboreal tropical ant community. Journal of Animal Ecology, 93, 501–516.
 
32. Dougherty, L.R., Frost, F., Maenpaa, M.I., Rowe, M., Cole, B.J., Vasudeva, R., Pottier, P., Schultner, E., Macartney, E.L., Lindenbaum, I., Smith, J.L., Carazo, P., Graziano, M., Weaving, H., Domenech, B.C., Berger, D., Meena, A., Bishop, T.R., Noble, D.W.A., Simões, P., Baur, J., Breedveld, M.C., Svensson, E.I., Lancaster, L.T., Ellers, J., Nardo, A.N.D., Santos, M.A., Ramm, S.A., Drobniak, S.M., Redana, M., Tuni, C., Pilakouta, N., Zizzari, Z.V., Iossa, G., Lüpold, S., Koppik, M., Early, R., Gasparini, C., Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., Bretman, A., Fricke, C., Snook, R.R. and Price, T.A.R. (2024) The effect of temperature on animal reproduction: a systematic map. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 5, e12303

2023
31. Corley, R.B., Dawson, W., & Bishop, T.R. (2023) A simple method to account for thermal boundary layers during the estimation of CTmax in small ectotherms. Journal of Thermal Biology, 116: 103673.

30. Idec, J.H., Bishop, T.R. and Fisher, B.L. (2023) Using computer vision to understand the global biogeography of ant color. Ecography, 2023: e06279.

29. Lasmar, C.J., Bishop, T.R., Parr, C.L., Queiroz, A.C.M., Wilker, I., Feitosa, R.M., Schmidt, F.A., and Ribas, C.R. (2023) Testing the Context Dependence of Ant Nutrient Preference across Habitat Strata and Trophic Levels in Neotropical Biomes. Ecology, 104: e3975.

28. Gibb, H., Bishop, T. R., Leahy, L., Parr, C. L., Lessard, J-P, Sanders, N. J., Shik, J. Z., Ibarra-Isassi, J., Narendra, A., Dunn, R. R., & Wright, I. J. (2023) Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants. Functional Ecology, 37: 13–25.

2022
27. Parr, C.L., and Bishop, T.R. (2022) The response of ants to climate change. Global Change Biology, 28: 3188-3205

2021
26. Bishop, T.R., Tomlinson, A., McNeice, T., Sfenthourakis, S., and Parr, C.L. (2021) The effect of fire on ant assemblages does not depend on habitat openness but does select for large, gracile predators. Ecosphere, 12: e03549

25.  Klimes, P., Bishop, T.R., Fayle, T.M., and Xing, S. (2021) Reported climate change impacts on cloud forest ants are driven by sampling bias: a critical evaluation of Warne et al., 2020. Biotropica, 53: 982-986

24. Lasmar, C.J., Bishop, T.R., Parr, C.L., Queiroz, A.C.M., Schmidt, F.A., and Ribas, C.R. (2021) Geographical variation in ant foraging activity and resource use is driven by climate and net primary productivity. Journal of Biogeography, 48: 1448-1459

​23. Cooke, J., Araya, Y., Bacon, K.L., Bagniewska, J.M., Batty, L., Bishop, T.R., Burns, M., Charalambous, M., Daversa, D.R., Dougherty, L.R., Dyson, M., Fisher, A.M., Forman, D., Garcia, C., Greene, K., Harney, E., Hesselberg, T., John, E.A., Knell, R., Maseyk, K., Mauchline, A.L., Peacock, J., Pernetta, A.P., Pritchard, J., Sutherland, W.J., Thomas, R.L., Tigar, B., Wheeler, P., White, R.L., Worsfold, N.T. and Lewis, Z. (2021) Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions. Oikos, 130: 15-28

22. Jins, V.J., Panigrahi, M., Jaypal, R. and Bishop, T.R. (2021) Elevational gradients of reptile richness in the southern Western Ghats of India:  evaluating spatial and bioclimatic drivers. Biotropica, 53: 317-328

21. Boyle, M.J.W., Bishop, T.R., Luke, S.H., van Breugel, M., Evans, T.A., Pfeifer, M., Fayle, T.M., Hardwick, S.R., Lane-Shaw, R.I., Yusah, K.M., Ashford, I.C.R., Ashford, O.S., Garnett, E., Turner, E.C., Wilkinson, C.L., Chung, A.Y.C. and Ewers R.M. (2021) Localised climate change defines ant communities in human-modified tropical landscapes. Functional Ecology, 35: 1094– 1108

2020
20. Bishop, T.R., Griffiths, H.M., Ashton, L.A., Eggleton, P., Woon, J.S., and Parr, C.L. (2020) Clarifying terrestrial recycling pathways. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, S0169-5347

19. Law, S.J., Bishop, T.R., Eggleton, P., Griffiths, H.M., Ashton, L.A. and Parr, C.L. (2020) Darker ants dominate the canopy: testing macroecological hypotheses for patterns in colour along a microclimatic gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89: 347-359

2019
18. Gaudard, C., Robertson, M.P. and Bishop, T.R. (2019) Low levels of intraspecific trait variation in a keystone invertebrate group. Oecologia, 4: 725-735

17. Bishop, T.R., Parr, C.L., Gibb, H., van Rensburg, B.J.,  Braschler, B., Chown, S.L., Foord, S.H., Lamy, K., Munyai, T.C., Okey, I., Tshivhandekano, P.G., Werenkraut, V. and Robertson, M.P. (2019) Thermoregulatory traits combine with range shifts to alter the future of montane ant assemblages. Global Change Biology, 25: 2162– 2173

16. Joseph, G.S., Muluvhahothe, M.M., Seymour, C.L., Munyai, T.C., Bishop, T.R. and Foord, S.H. (2019) Stability of Afromontane ant diversity decreases across an elevation gradient. Global Ecology and Conservation, 17: e00596

2018
15. Arnan, X., Andersen, A.N., Gibb, H., Parr, C.L., Sanders, N.J., Dunn, R.R., Angulo, E., Baccaro, F.B., Bishop, T.R., Boulay, R., Castracani, C., Del Toro, I., Delsinne, T., Donoso, D.A., Elten, E.K., Enriquez, M.L., Fayle, T.M., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Gómez, C., Gove, A., Groc, S., Grossman, B.F., Guenard, B., Gunawardene, N., Heterick, B., Hoffmann, B., Janda, M., Jenkins, C., Klimes, P., Lach, L., Laeger, T., Leponce, M., Lucky, A., Menke, S., Mezger, D., Moses, J., Munyai, T.C., Paknia, O., Pearce-Duvet, J., Pfeiffer, M., Philpott, S.M., Souza, J., Tista, M., Vasconcelos, H.L. and Retana, J. (2018) Dominance - diversity relationships in ant communities: a global analysis reveals dominance-impoverishment for invaded communities but dominance-diversification for native communities. Global Change Biology​, 24: 4614-4625

14. Nowrouzi, S., Andersen, A.N., Bishop, T.R. and Robson, S.K.A. (2018) Is thermal limitation the primary driver of elevational distributions? Not for montane rainforest ants in the Australian Wet Tropics. Oecologia, 188: 333-342

13. Gibb, H., Sanders, N.J., Dunn, R.R., Arnan, X., Vasconcelos, H.L., Donoso, D.A., Andersen, A.N., Silva, R.R., Bishop, T.R., Gomez, C., Grossman, B.F., Yusah, K.M., Luke, S.H., Pacheco, R., Pearce-Duvet, J., Retana, J., Tista, M. and Parr, C.L. (2018) Habitat disturbance selects against both small and large species across varying climates. Ecography, 41: 1184-1193

2017
12. Bishop, T.R. (2017) Taxonomic and functional ecology of montane ants. Frontiers of Biogeography, 9
 
11. Gibb, H., Dunn, R.R., Sanders, N.J., Grossman, B.F., Photakis, M., Abril, S., Agosti, D., Andersen, A.N., Angulo, E., Armbrecht, I., Arnan, X., Baccaro, F.B., Bishop, T.R., Boulay, R., Brühl, C., Castracani, C., Cerda, X., Del Toro, I., Delsinne, T., Diaz, M., Donoso, D.A., Ellison, A.M., Enriquez, M.L., Fayle, T.M., Feener, D.H., Fisher, B.L., Fisher, R., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Gómez, C., Gotelli, N.J., Gove, A., Grasso, D.A., Groc, S., Guenard, B., Gunawardene, N., Heterick, B., Hoffmann, B., Janda, M., Jenkins, C., Kaspari, M., Klimes, P., Lach, L., Laeger, T., Lattke, J., Leponce, M., Lessard, J.P., Longino, J., Lucky, A., Luke, S.H., Majer, J., McGlynn, T.P., Menke, S., Mezger, D., Mori, A., Moses, J., Munyai, T.C., Pacheco, R., Paknia, O., Pearce-Duvet, J., Pfeiffer, M., Philpott, S.M., Resasco, J., Retana, J., Silva, R.R., Sorger, M.D., Souza, J., Suarez, A., Tista, M., Vasconcelos, H.L., Vonshak, M., Weiser, M.D., Yates, M., and Parr, C.L. (2016) A global database of ant species abundances, Ecology, 98: 883-884

10. Parr, C.L., Dunn, R.R., Sanders, N.J., Weiser, M.D., Photakis, M., Bishop, T.R., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Arnan, X., Baccaro, F., Brandão, C.R.F., Chick, L., Donoso, D.A., Fayle, T.M., Gómez, C., Grossman, B., Munyai, T.C., Pacheco, R., Retana, J., Robinson, A., Sagata, K., Silva, R.R., Tista, M., Vasconcelos, H., Yates, M., and Gibb, H. (2017) GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity, 10: 5-20
 
9. Bishop, T.R., Robertson, M.P., van Rensburg, B.J. and Parr, C.L. (2017) Coping with the cold: minimum temperatures and thermal tolerances dominate the ecology of mountain ants. Ecological Entomology, 42: 105-114

2016
8. Bishop, T.R., Robertson, M.P., Gibb, H., van Rensburg, B.J.,  Braschler, B., Chown, S.L., Foord, S.H., Munyai, T.C., Okey, I., Tshivhandekano, P.G., Werenkraut, V. and Parr, C.L. (2016) Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 1489–1499
 
7. Schofield, S.F., Bishop, T.R. and Parr, C.L. (2016) Morphological characteristics of ant assemblages differ among contrasting biomes. Myrmecological News, 23: 129-137
 
6. Májeková, M., Paal, T., Plowman, N.S., Bryndová, M., Kasari, L., Norberg, A., Weiss, M., Bishop, T.R., Luke, S.H., Sam, K., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Lepš, J., Götzenberger, L. and de Bello, F. (2016) Evaluating functional diversity: missing trait data and the importance of species abundance structure and data transformation. PLoS ONE, 11: e0149270.

2015
5. Gibb, H., Sanders, N.J., Dunn, R.R., Watson, S., Photakis, M., Abril, S., Andersen, A.N., Angulo, E., Armbrecht, I., Arnan, X., Baccaro, F.B., Bishop, T.R., Boulay, R., Castracani, C., Del Toro, I., Delsinne, T., Diaz, M., Donoso, D.A., Enríquez, M.L., Fayle, T.M., Feener, D.H., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Gómez, C., Grasso, D.A., Groc, S., Heterick, B., Hoffmann, B.D., Lach, L., Lattke, J., Leponce, M., Lessard, J.P., Longino, J., Lucky, A., Majer, J., Menke, S.B., Mezger, D., Mori, A., Munyai, T.C., Paknia, O., Pearce-Duvet, J., Pfeiffer, M., Philpott, S.M., de Souza, J.L.P., Tista, M., Vasconcelos, H.L., Vonshak, M. and Parr, C.L. (2015) Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20150418.
 
4. Bishop, T.R., Robertson, M.P., van Rensburg, B.J. and Parr, C.L. (2015) Contrasting species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages. Journal of Biogeography, 42: 1776–1786.

3. Ewers, R.M., Boyle, M.J.W., Gleave, R., Plowman, N.S., Benedick, S., Bernard, H., Bishop, T.R., Bakhtiar, E.Y., Chey, V.K., Chung, A.Y.C., Davies, R.G., Edwards, D.P., Eggleton, P., Fayle, T.M., Hardwick, S.R., Homathevi, R., Kitching, R.L., Khoo, M.S., Luke, S.L., March, J.J., Nilus, R., Pfeifer, M., Rao, S.V., Sharp, A.C., Snaddon, J.L., Stork, N.E., Struebig, M.J., Wearn, O.R., Yusah, K.M. and Turner E.C. (2015) Logging cuts invertebrate dominance of tropical rainforest ecosystem functions. Nature Communications, 6: 6836.
 
2014

2. Bishop, T.R., Robertson, M.P., van Rensburg, B.J. and Parr, C.L. (2014) Elevation-diversity patterns through space and time: ant communities of the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of southern Africa. Journal of Biogeography, 41: 2256-2268. 

2013
1. Bishop, T.R., Botham, M. S., Fox, R., Leather, S. R., Chapman, D. S. and Oliver, T. H. (2013) The utility of distribution data in predicting phenology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4: 1024–1032.

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