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

Consequences of leaf-cutting ants on plant fitness: integrating negative effects of herbivory and positive effects from soil improvement

(2016) A. G. Farji-Brener et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Predicted impacts of climatic change on ant functional diversity and distributions in eastern North American forests

(2015) Israel Del Toro et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The role of bacteria and protists in nitrogen turnover in ant nest and forest floor material: A laboratory experiment

(2015) Veronika Jílková et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Nest-mounds of the yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus) at the “Alter Gleisberg”, Central Germany: Hot or cold spots in nutrient cycling?

(2015) Peggy Bierbaß et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

(2015) Robert M. Ewers et al.   Nature Communications

Effect of harvester ants of the genusPogonomyrmexon the soil seed bank around their nests in the central Monte desert, Argentina

(2015) GABRIELA I. PIRK et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

The Phylogeny and Evolution of Ants

(2014) Philip S. Ward   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

(2014) Inara R. Leal et al.   BIOTROPICA

A meta-analysis of leaf-cutting ant nest effects on soil fertility and plant performance

(2014) ALEJANDRO G. FARJI-BRENER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Impact of abundant Pheidole ant species on soil nutrients in relation to the food biology of the species

(2013) R.K. Shukla et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Contributions of ant mounds to soil carbon and nitrogen pools in a marsh wetland of Northeastern China

(2013) Haitao Wu et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Moisture enhances the positive effect of leaf-cutting ant refuse dumps on soil biota activity

(2013) Anahí Fernandez et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Manna from heaven: Refuse from an arboreal ant links aboveground and belowground processes in a lowland tropical forest

(2013) Natalie A. Clay et al.   Ecosphere

Nest refuse of leaf-cutting ants mineralize faster than leaf fragments: Results from a field experiment in Northeast Brazil

(2012) Leandro Sousa-Souto et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Effects of leaf-cutting ant refuse on native plant performance under two levels of grazing intensity in the Monte Desert of Argentina

(2012) Noelia V. Cerda et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Local and landscape-scale effects of an ant nest construction in an open dry forest of Uruguay

(2012) BEATRIZ SOSA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The effects of harvester ant (Messor ebeninus Forel) nests on vegetation and soil properties in a desert dwarf shrub community in north-eastern Arabia

(2012) Gary Brown et al.   FLORA

Effect of leaf-cutting ant nests on plant growth in an oligotrophic Amazon rain forest

(2012) Amartya K. Saha et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL 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

Testing the directed dispersal hypothesis: are native ant mounds (Formica sp.) favorable microhabitats for an invasive plant?

(2012) Moni C. Berg-Binder et al.   OECOLOGIA

Bottom-up effects may not reach the top: the influence of ant-aphid interactions on the spread of soil disturbances through trophic chains

(2012) M. N. Lescano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why does Atta robusta (Formicidae) not change soil features around their nests as other leaf-cutting ants do?

(2012) Marcelo S. Madureira et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Do long-lived ants affect soil microbial communities?

(2011) Walter G. Whitford et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Disentangling the roles of natural selection and genetic drift in shaping variation at MHC immunity genes

(2011) JOLENE T. SUTTON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Increased CO2 emission and organic matter decomposition by leaf-cutting ant nests in a coastal environment

(2011) Leandro Sousa-Souto et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Ants and termites increase crop yield in a dry climate

(2011) Theodore A. Evans et al.   Nature Communications

Biogenic structures of two ant species Formica sanguinea and Lasius flavus altered soil C, N and P distribution in a meadow wetland of the Sanjiang Plain, China

(2010) Haitao Wu et al.   APPLIED SOIL 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

Chemical properties of forest soils as affected by nests of Myrmica ruginodis (Formicidae)

(2010) Adam Véle et al.   BIOLOGIA

Ecosystem engineering by leaf-cutting ants: nests of Atta cephalotes drastically alter forest structure and microclimate

(2010) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Termites create spatial structure and govern ecosystem function by affecting N2fixation in an East African savanna

(2010) Kena Fox-Dobbs et al.   ECOLOGY

Termites, vertebrate herbivores, and the fruiting success of Acacia drepanolobium

(2010) Alison K. Brody et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term aboveground and belowground consequences of red wood ant exclusion in boreal forest

(2010) David A. Wardle et al.   ECOLOGY

Changes in the pH and other soil chemical parameters in soil surrounding wood ant (Formica polyctena) nests

(2010) Veronika Jílková et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis

(2010) María-José Endara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ant nest location, soil nutrients and nutrient uptake by ant-associated plants: does extrafloral nectar attract ant nests and thereby enhance plant nutrition?

(2010) Diane Wagner et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Positive ecosystem engineering effects of the antAtta vollenweiderion the shrubGrabowskia duplicata

(2010) Beatriz Sosa et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

Determinants of the detrital arthropod community structure: the effects of temperature and resources along an environmental gradient

(2010) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   OIKOS

Foraging animals create fertile patches in an Australian desert shrubland

(2009) Alex I. James et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Carrion decomposition and nutrient cycling in a semiarid shrub–steppe ecosystem

(2009) Robert R. Parmenter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance

(2009) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY

A meta-analysis of impacts of alien vs. native plants on pollinator visitation and reproductive success of co-flowering native plants

(2009) Carolina Laura Morales et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ants accelerate succession from mountain grassland towards spruce forest

(2009) Blanka Vlasáková et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2009) Michele M. Corrêa et al.   OECOLOGIA

Temporal patterns of nutrient availability around nests of leaf-cutting ants (Atta colombica) in secondary moist tropical forest

(2009) Theresa M. Hudson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Harvester Ant Nests Improve Recovery Performance of Drought Impacted Vegetation in Grazing Regimes of Semiarid Savanna, Texas

(2008) Nancy Nicolai et al.   AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST

Soil engineering ants increase grass root arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization

(2008) Jens Dauber et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Influence of the wood ant, Formica polyctena, on soil nutrient and the spruce tree growth

(2008) J. Frouz et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Organic mound-building ants: their impact on soil properties in temperate and boreal forests

(2008) M. F. Jurgensen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Ant nests and soil nutrient availability: the negative impact of fire

(2008) Leandro Sousa-Souto et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

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

Interactive disturbance effects of two disparate ecosystem engineers in North American shortgrass steppe

(2008) Christina Alba-Lynn et al.   OECOLOGIA

Different effects of earthworms and ants on soil properties of paddy fields in North-East Thailand

(2008) Pascal Jouquet et al.   Paddy and Water Environment

Leaf-cutting ant nests near roads increase fitness of exotic plant species in natural protected areas

(2008) A. G Farji-Brener et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of three species of Chihuahuan Desert ants on annual plants and soil properties

(2007) W.G. Whitford et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS