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

Parasitoid phorid flies of leaf-cutting ants are negatively affected by loss of forest cover

(2017) C.A. Barrera et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Euphorbiaceae responses to chronic anthropogenic disturbances in Caatinga vegetation: from species proliferation to biotic homogenization

(2017) Kátia F. Rito et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga

(2016) José Domingos Ribeiro-Neto et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Foraging activity of leaf-cutting ants changes light availability and plant assemblage in Atlantic forest

(2016) MICHELE M. CORRÊA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogenetic impoverishment of plant communities following chronic human disturbances in the Brazilian Caatinga

(2016) Elâine M. S. Ribeiro et al.   ECOLOGY

Roads increase population growth rates of a native leaf-cutter ant in Neotropical savannahs

(2016) Ernane H. M. Vieira-Neto et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Caatinga: The Scientific Negligence Experienced by a Dry Tropical Forest

(2016) Jean Carlos Santos et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Do leaf-cutting ants benefit from forest fragmentation? Insights from community and species-specific responses in a fragmented dry forest

(2015) Corina A. Barrera et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

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

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

Football and Biodiversity Conservation: FIFA and Brazil Can Still Hit a Green Goal

(2014) Felipe P. Melo et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

(2014) Inara R. Leal et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

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

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

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

Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis

(2013) Lenore Fahrig   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

What do we know about armadillos? An analysis of four centuries of knowledge about a group of South American mammals, with emphasis on their conservation

(2013) Mariella Superina et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Does the edge effect influence plant community structure in a tropical dry forest?

(2013) Diogo Gallo Oliveira et al.   REVISTA ARVORE

Ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of northeastern Brazil: a compilation from field surveys in Bahia and literature records

(2013) Mônica A. Ulysséa et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA

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

(2012) Marcelo Tabarelli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization

(2011) Diele Lôbo et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Leaf-cutting ants proliferate in the Amazon: an expected response to forest edge?

(2011) Christoph Dohm et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Edge-induced narrowing of dietary diversity in leaf-cutting ants

(2010) P.F. Falcão et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

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

Phenology and wood density of plants growing in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil

(2010) A.L.A. Lima et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Predictable waves of sequential forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city

(2010) A. Ahrends et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

(2009) R. Toby Pennington et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

(2009) Sebastian T. Meyer et al.   BIOTROPICA

Decreasing abundance of leaf-cutting ants across a chronosequence of advancing Atlantic forest regeneration

(2009) Paulo S. D. Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Michele M. Corrêa et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Drastic erosion in functional attributes of tree assemblages in Atlantic forest fragments of northeastern Brazil

(2007) Bráulio A. Santos et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION