Spatial patterns of species richness and nestedness in ant assemblages along an elevational gradient in a Mediterranean mountain range

• Omar Flores ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Omar Flores, Javier Seoane, Francisco M. Azcárate

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: omarf@mncn.csic.es

  Affiliations Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, Terrestrial Ecology Group, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2760-3015

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• Javier Seoane ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Omar Flores, Javier Seoane, Francisco M. Azcárate

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Terrestrial Ecology Group, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Violeta Hevia,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Francisco M. Azcárate

  Contributed equally to this work with: Omar Flores, Javier Seoane, Francisco M. Azcárate

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Terrestrial Ecology Group, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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