We are highly grateful to all individuals, citizen-scientists and researchers for assisting our efforts in mapping the ants of Cyprus.
We would particularly like to thank:
Dr Andri Varnava (Postdoctoral Researcher/Cyprus University of Technology): specimen and data provision.
Dr Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanical Gardens/Belgium): data curation and publication to the GBIF.
Dr Quentin Groom (Meise Botanical Gardens/Belgium): data curation and publication to the GBIF.
Mr Christodoulos Makris (Limassol/Cyprus): specimen and data provision.
Mr Demetris Kolokotronis (Nicosia/Cyprus): specimen and data provision.
Mr Evangelos Koutsoukos (PhD student/Darwin Fellow/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): photographs, specimen and data provision.
Mr Gregor Bračko (Research Associate/University of Ljubljana/Slovenia): specimen data provision.
Ms Joanna Angelidou (PhD student/Darwin Fellow/Ionian University): specimen and data provision.
The students and personnel of Asomatos primary school (Limassol/Cyprus) for the collection of specimens and data.
We would like to thank Biodiversity Challenge Funds and the Darwin Initiative for funding this project.
This website has been constructed in the framework of Darwin Plus Fellowship DPLUS200: "Biodiversity and spatio-temporal patterns of ants in the Akrotiri Peninsula".
Laboratory of Vector Ecology and Applied Entomology, Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus, BFC RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus.
Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Department of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre/ Care-C, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Section of Zoology and Marine Biology, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Museum of Zoology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wroclaw, Poland.
UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology (UK CEH), Wallingford, United Kingdom.
Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom.
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Cyprus.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan.
Meise Botanical Gardens, Brussels, Belgium.
Christodoulos Makris, Jakovos Demetriou and Dr Christos Georgiadis (left to right) during fieldwork on April 2022.