Foraging in highly dynamic environments: leaf-cutting ants adjust foraging trail networks to pioneer plant availability

Drought stress drives intraspecific choice of food plants by Atta leaf-cutting ants

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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

Do Leaf Cutting Ants Cut Undetected? Testing the Effect of Ant-Induced Plant Defences on Foraging Decisions in Atta colombica

(2011) Christian Kost et al.   PLoS One

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

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-effects Drive Tropical Forest Fragments Towards an Early-Successional System

(2008) Marcelo Tabarelli et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

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