@article{oai:oist.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002756, author = {Kass, Jamie M. and Guénard, Benoit and Dudley, Kenneth L. and Jenkins, Clinton N. and Azuma, Fumika and Fisher, Brian L. and Parr, Catherine L. and Gibb, Heloise and Longino, John T. and Ward, Philip S. and Chao, Anne and Lubertazzi, David and Weiser, Michael and Jetz, Walter and Guralnick, Robert and Blatrix, Rumsaïs and Lauriers, James Des and Donoso, David A. and Georgiadis, Christos and Gomez, Kiko and Hawkes, Peter G. and Johnson, Robert A. and Lattke, John E. and MacGown, Joe A. and Mackay, William and Robson, Simon and Sanders, Nathan J. and Dunn, Robert R. and Economo, Evan P.}, issue = {31}, journal = {Science Advances}, month = {Aug}, note = {Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their congruences with vertebrates remain largely unknown. We resolve the first high-resolution (~20-km) global diversity map for a major invertebrate clade, ants, using biodiversity informatics, range modeling, and machine learning to synthesize existing knowledge and predict the distribution of undiscovered diversity. We find that ants and different vertebrate groups have distinct features in their patterns of richness and rarity, underscoring the need to consider a diversity of taxa in conservation. However, despite their phylogenetic and physiological divergence, ant distributions are not highly anomalous relative to variation among vertebrate clades. Furthermore, our models predict that rarity centers largely overlap (78%), suggesting that general forces shape endemism patterns across taxa. This raises confidence that conservation of areas important for small-ranged vertebrates will benefit invertebrates while providing a “treasure map” to guide future discovery.}, title = {The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity}, volume = {8}, year = {2022} }