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A New Protocol Using Artificial Seeds to Evaluate Dietary Preferences of Harvester Ants in Semi-arid Environments

article by Pedro Luna & Wesley Dáttilo published 9 July 2018 in Sociobiology

A Useful Guide of Main Indices and Software Used for Ecological Networks Studies

A framework to interpret co‐occurrence patterns from camera trap data: The case of the gray fox, the bobcat, and the eastern cottontail rabbit in a tropical dry habitat

scientific article published in 2022

ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

scientific article published in 2021

Above- and below-ground trait coordination in tree seedlings depend on the most limiting resource: a test comparing a wet and a dry tropical forest in Mexico

scientific article published on 14 June 2022

Ant diversity decreases during the dry season: A meta‐analysis of the effects of seasonality on ant richness and abundance

Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country

Ant dominance hierarchy determines the nested pattern in ant-plant networks

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Ant social foraging strategies along a Neotropical gradient of urbanization

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Ant species richness and interactions in canopies of two distinct successional stages in a tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Ants of Brazil: an overview based on 50 years of diversity studies

scientific article published in 2022

Ants of Brazil: an overview based on 50 years of diversity studies

journal article from 'Systematics and Biodiversity' published in 2022

Assessing the impacts of tramp and invasive species on the structure and dynamic of ant-plant interaction networks

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Beta diversity of ant-plant interactions over day-night periods and plant physiognomies in a semiarid environment

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Biological drivers of individual-based anuran-parasite networks under contrasting environmental conditions

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

COVID-19 most vulnerable Mexican cities lack the public health infrastructure to face the pandemic: a new temporally-explicit model

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Canopy Openness Enhances Diversity of Ant-Plant Interactions in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest

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Climate and human influence shape the interactive role of the honeybee in pollination networks beyond its native distributional range

scientific article published in 2022

Climate variability and aridity modulate the role of leaf shelters for arthropods: A global experiment

scientific article published on 04 March 2022

Climate variability and drought modulate the role of structural refuges for arthropods: a global experiment

Complex foraging ecology of the red harvester ant and its effect on the soil seed bank

scientific article published in 2018

Correction to 'Unravelling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types'.

scientific article

Differential Recruitment of Camponotus femoratus (Fabricius) Ants in Response to Ant Garden Herbivory.

scientific article

Diversity and network structure of invertebrate communities associated to Heliconia species in natural and human disturbed tropical rain forests

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Drivers of flower visit and resource sharing between the honeybee and native bees in Neotropical coastal sand dunes

scientific article published in 2024

Drivers of the structure of plant-hummingbird interaction networks at multiple temporal scales

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Ecological Networks in the Tropics

Efficiency of different planted forests in recovering biodiversity and ecological interactions in Brazilian Amazon

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Epiphytic bromeliads as key components for maintenance of ant diversity and ant–bromeliad interactions in agroforestry system canopies

scientific article published in 2016

Epiphytic bromeliads as key components for maintenance of ant diversity and ant–bromeliad interactions in agroforestry system canopies

journal article from 'Forest ecology and management' published in 2016

Equal but different: Natural ecotones are dissimilar to anthropic edges

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Exploring the vegetation: Seed harvester ants climb and remove seeds from a giant cactus in a semiarid environment

Floral resource partitioning by ants and bees in a jambolan Syzygium jambolanum (Myrtaceae) agroforestry system in Brazilian Meridional Amazon

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Food source availability and interspecific dominance as structural mechanisms of ant-plant-hemipteran multitrophic networks

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Food source quality and ant dominance hierarchy influence the outcomes of ant-plant interactions in an arid environment

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Foraging ants on the extrafloral nectaries repel nectar thieves but not the effective pollinator of Vigna luteola (Fabaceae) in a Mexican coastal sand dune

Forest cover and landscape heterogeneity shape ant–plant co-occurrence networks in human-dominated tropical rainforests

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Forest cover drives leaf litter ant diversity in primary rainforest remnants within human-modified tropical landscapes

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Forest cover modulates diversity and morphological traits of ants in highly fragmented tropical forest landscapes

scientific article published on 20 May 2022

From species descriptions to diversity patterns: the validation of taxonomic data as a keystone for ant diversity studies reproducibility and accuracy

From species to individuals: does the variation in ant–plant networks scale result in structural and functional changes?

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Fruit traits and temporal abundance shape plant-frugivore interaction networks in a seasonal tropical forest.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Global trends in the trophic specialisation of flower‐visitor networks are explained by current and historical climate

scientific article published in 2021

Habitat generalists drive nestedness in a tropical mountaintop insect metacommunity

Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations.

scientific article

Highly nested diets in intrapopulation monkey-resource food webs.

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

How much leaf area do insects eat? A data set of insect herbivory sampled globally with a standardized protocol

article by Gisele M. Mendes et al published 21 March 2021 in Ecology

I Can See You: Temporal Variation in Ant Aggressiveness Towards Herbivores under Continuous Provision of High- or Low-quality Food Sources

scientific article published in 2020

Importance of interaction frequency in analysis of ant-plant networks in tropical environments

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In remembrance of Victor Rico Gray (1951‐2021): An astonishing tropical ecologist

scientific article

Individual-based ant-plant networks: diurnal-nocturnal structure and species-area relationship

scientific article

Influence of Cave Size and Presence of Bat Guano on Ant Visitation

Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world

scientific article published on 08 February 2020

Interaction intimacy of pathogens and herbivores with their host plants influences the topological structure of ecological networks in different ways.

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Interações mutualísticas entre formigas e plantas

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Intraspecific variation in fruit-frugivore interactions: effects of fruiting neighborhood and consequences for seed dispersal.

scientific article

Invader’s success: behavioural and reproductive plasticity of interacting exotic dung beetles

scientific article published in 2023

Invasive Plant Species Driving the Biotic Homogenization of Plant-Frugivore Interactions in the Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot

scientific article published in 2023

Landscape configuration and composition shape mutualistic and antagonistic interactions among plants, bats, and ectoparasites in human-dominated tropical rainforests

scientific article published on 06 August 2021

Landscape structure and composition define the body condition of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a fragmented tropical rainforest

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Limited effects of fire disturbances on the species diversity and structure of ant-plant interaction networks in Brazilian Cerrado

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Linking dung beetle diversity and its ecological function in a gradient of livestock intensification management in the Neotropical region

scientific article published in 2019

Major biases and knowledge gaps on fragmentation research in Brazil: Implications for conservation

scientific article

Measuring and Linking the Missing Part of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: The Diversity of Biotic Interactions

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Mexico ants: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 30 August 2020

NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES : A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 27 February 2023

NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants

scientific article published on 19 February 2021

New record of a very specialized interaction: myrcidris epicharis Ward 1990 (Pseudomyrmecinae) and its myrmecophyte host Myrcia madida McVaugh (Myrtaceae) in Brazilian Meridional Amazon

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Postponing the production of ant domatia as a strategy promoting an escape from flooding in an Amazonian myrmecophyte

scientific article published in 2018

Potential distribution and predator-prey interactions with terrestrial vertebrates of four pet commercialized exotic snakes in Mexico

scientific article

Predictive model of distribution ofAtta robustaBorgmeier 1939 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): subsidies for conservation of a Brazilian leaf-cutting ant endangered species

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Primeiro registro da quenquém cisco-da-Amazônia Acromyrmex hystrix Latreille (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) para o estado do Maranhão, Brasil

scientific article published in 2010

Relative contribution of ecological and biological attributes in the fine-grain structure of ant-plant networks

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Sampling effort differences can lead to biased conclusions on the architecture of ant–plant interaction networks

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Scale of effect matters: Forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks

scientific article published in 2022

Searching for keystone plant resources in fruit‐frugivore interaction networks across the Neotropics

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Seed dispersal by Neotropical bats in human-disturbed landscapes

scientific article published in 2021

Severe airport sanitarian control could slow down the spreading of COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil

scientific article (preprint)

Severe airport sanitarian control could slow down the spreading of COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Shade tree isolation in pastures modulates diversity of epiphyte‐dwelling spiders: The role of epiphyte biomass and species dispersal capacity

scientific article published in 2022

Shopping for Ecological Indices? On the Use of Incidence-Based Species Compositional Similarity Measures

scientific article published in 2022

Small vertebrates are key elements in the frugivory networks of a hyperdiverse tropical forest

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Social Wasp-Flower Visiting Guild Interactions in Less Structurally Complex Habitats are More Susceptible to Local Extinction

Spatial Scaling Involving the Complexity of Biotic Interactions: Integrating Concepts, Current Status, and Future Perspectives

scientific article published in 2023

Spatial structure of ant-plant mutualistic networks

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Species turnover increases ant–trophobiont interaction dissimilarities along a geographical gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Species-level drivers of mammalian ectoparasite faunas

scientific article published on 21 March 2020

Strength of the modular pattern in Amazonian symbiotic ant–plant networks

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Structural breakdown of specialized plant-herbivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges

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Structural changes over time in individual‐based networks involving a harvester ant, seeds, and invertebrates

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Structure of mutualistic ant–treehopper interactions in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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Subtle structures with not‐so‐subtle functions: A data set of arthropod constructs and their host plants

scientific article published in 2022

Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant‐plant interaction networks: A global overview

scientific article published in 2023

Taxonomic composition of Scarabaeinae dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) inhabiting fluvial islands in the southern Brazilian Amazon

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Temperature Influence on Species Co-Occurrence Patterns in Treefall Gap and Dense Forest Ant Communities in a Terra- Firme Forest of Central Amazon, Brazil

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Temperature dissimilarity drives flower–visitor interaction turnover across elevation in the Mexican Transition Zone

Temporal variation in extrafloral nectar secretion in different ontogenic stages of the fruits of Alibertia verrucosa S. Moore (Rubiaceae) in a Neotropical savanna

article published in 2013

The Complex Ant–Plant Relationship Within Tropical Ecological Networks

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The Impact of the Honeybee Apis mellifera on the Organization of Pollination Networks Is Positively Related with Its Interactive Role throughout Its Geographic Range

scientific article published in 2022

The Multiple Impacts of Tropical Forest Fragmentation on Arthropod Biodiversity and on their Patterns of Interactions with Host Plants.

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

The frugivory network properties of a simplified ecosystem: Birds and plants in a Neotropical periurban park

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

The geographic distribution of parasite-induced fruit mimicry in Cephalotes atratus (Formicidae: Myrmicinae).

scientific article published on 5 July 2012

The influence of spatial sampling scales on ant-plant interaction network architecture

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

The risk of use small matrices to measure specialization in host-parasite interaction networks: a comment to Rivera-García et al. (2016).

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

The role of sex and age in the architecture of intrapopulation howler monkey-plant networks in continuous and fragmented rain forests

scientific article

The spatial distribution of insect communities of a mountaintop forest archipelago is not correlated with landscape structure: A multitaxa approach

scientific article published in 2023

The structure of ant-plant ecological networks: is abundance enough?

scientific article

Topological structure of plant-bee networks in four Mexican environments

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Trait-mediated indirect interactions of ant shape on the attack of caterpillars and fruits

scientific article published on August 2016

Tropical forest fragmentation affects floral visitors but not the structure of individual-based palm-pollinator networks

scientific article

Understanding the Complex Structure of a Plant-Floral Visitor Network from Different Perspectives in Coastal Veracruz, Mexico

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Unmasking the architecture of ant-diaspore networks in the Brazilian Savanna

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Unravelling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types.

scientific article published in November 2016

Where has the city choir gone? Loss of the temporal structure of bird dawn choruses in urban areas

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Worldwide COVID-19 spreading explained: traveling numbers as a primary driver for the pandemic

scientific article published on 16 September 2020