Effects of pasture and forest microclimatic conditions on the foraging activity of leaf-cutting ants

Leaf-cutting ant populations profit from human disturbances in tropical dry forest in Brazil

(2017) Felipe F. S. Siqueira et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

AntCounter Software: Counting Leaf-Cutting Ants Was never so Precise, fast and Easy

(2016) Santiago Bustamante et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Mechanisms Driving Galling Success in a Fragmented Landscape: Synergy of Habitat and Top-Down Factors along Temperate Forest Edges

(2016) Nina-S. Kelch et al.   PLoS One

Altered herb assemblages in fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic forest

(2015) Patrícia B. Lima et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

The Multiple Impacts of Leaf-Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human-Modified Neotropical Forests

(2014) Inara R. Leal et al.   BIOTROPICA

Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Interspecific Interactions

(2014) AINHOA MAGRACH et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Trophic disruption: a meta-analysis of how habitat fragmentation affects resource consumption in terrestrial arthropod systems

(2014) Holly M. Martinson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from 1990 to 2010

(2014) Frédéric Achard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: topsoil and litter perturbations aroundAtta cephalotesnests reduce nutrient availability

(2013) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Fragmentation Impairs the Microclimate Buffering Effect of Tropical Forests

(2013) Robert M. Ewers et al.   PLoS One

Testing the microclimate hypothesis: Light environment and population trends of Neotropical birds

(2012) Michael A. Patten et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The ‘few winners and many losers’ paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

(2012) Marcelo Tabarelli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Leaf-cutting ants revisited: Towards rational management and control

(2012) James Montoya-Lerma et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEST MANAGEMENT

Shaking a leg and hot to trot: the effects of body size and temperature on running speed in ants

(2010) ALLEN H. HURLBERT et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

(2010) Ruth S. DeFries et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ecological engineering by a native leaf-cutting ant increases the performance of exotic plant species

(2010) Alejandro G. Farji-Brener et al.   OECOLOGIA

What is an edge species? The implications of sensitivity to habitat edges

(2010) Leslie Ries et al.   OIKOS

Persisting Hyper-abundance of Leaf-cutting Ants (Attaspp.) at the Edge of an Old Atlantic Forest Fragment

(2009) Sebastian T. Meyer et al.   BIOTROPICA

Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot

(2008) CELIA A. HARVEY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Edge-mediated reduction of phorid parasitism on leaf-cutting ants in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

(2008) Walkiria R. de Almeida et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Do herbivores exert top-down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf-cutter ants

(2008) Alan N. Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Soil temperature, digging behaviour, and the adaptive value of nest depth in South American species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

(2008) Martin Bollazzi et al.   OECOLOGIA