Leaf‐cutting ant nests support less dense and impoverished seed assemblages in a human‐modified Caatinga dry forest

Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape

(2022) Renato Soares Vanderlei et al.   BIOTROPICA

Leaf-cutting ants negatively impact the regeneration of the Caatinga dry forest across abandoned pastures

(2020) Clarissa M. Knoechelmann et al.   BIOTROPICA

Welcome to the Atta world: A framework for understanding the effects of leaf‐cutter ants on ecosystem functions

(2019) Amanda C. Swanson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Multiple drivers of aboveground biomass in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest

(2019) Danielle Gomes Souza et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The scale of landscape effect on seed dispersal depends on both response variables and landscape predictor

(2019) Miriam San-José et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Ant removal distance, but not seed manipulation and deposition site increases the establishment of a myrmecochorous plant

(2019) Tiago V. Fernandes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Seed manipulation by ants: disentangling the effects of ant behaviours on seed germination

(2018) Tiago V. Fernandes et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Human disturbance promotes herbivory by leaf-cutting ants in the Caatinga dry forest

(2018) Felipe F. S. Siqueira et al.   BIOTROPICA

The effects of ant nests on soil fertility and plant performance: a meta-analysis

(2017) Alejandro G. Farji-Brener et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Precipitation mediates the effect of human disturbance on the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

(2017) Kátia F. Rito et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Biotic drivers of seedling establishment in Neotropical savannas: selective granivory and seedling herbivory by leaf-cutter ants as an ecological filter

(2016) Alan N. Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

(2015) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance drives the biological impoverishment of the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

(2015) Elâine M. S. Ribeiro et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Inara R. Leal et al.   BIOTROPICA

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Using observation-level random effects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution

(2014) Xavier A. Harrison   PeerJ

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Leaf-cutting ants alter seedling assemblages across second-growth stands of Brazilian Atlantic forest

(2012) Paulo S. D. Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Performance and fate of tree seedlings on and around nests of the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes: Ecological filters in a fragmented forest

(2010) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Do abandoned nests of leaf-cutting ants enhance plant recruitment in the Atlantic Forest?

(2010) ANA GABRIELA D. BIEBER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Testing the significance of canonical axes in redundancy analysis

(2010) Pierre Legendre et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How leaf-cutting ants impact forests: drastic nest effects on light environment and plant assemblages

(2009) Michele M. Corrêa et al.   OECOLOGIA

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