Research Scientist, Dr. Clinton Jenkins and coauthors published a paper on global ant diversity and
climate change. The article can be read at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00770.x/abst...

This is a first effort at detailed mapping of ant diversity at the
global scale, something that has tended to be done so far only with
vertebrates having more data. 

