Ants as Indicators in Brazil: A Review with Suggestions to Improve the Use of Ants in Environmental Monitoring Programs

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Trend of the number of analyzed papers regarding ants as indicators in Brazil. Indication papers—paper specifies (explicitly or implicitly) the intention of analyzing ants as indicators in the aim or introduction. Potential indication paper—the above criteria was not met, but the paper presents results that could potentially enable the use of ants as indicators.