Testing the context dependence of ant nutrient preference across habitat strata and trophic levels in N eotropical biomes

CJ Lasmar, TR Bishop, CL Parr, ACM Queiroz… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animals are integrated into the wider ecosystem via their foraging and behavior. The
compensation hypothesis predicts that animals target their foraging efforts (i) toward …

Stratification and recovery time jointly shape ant functional reassembly in a neotropical forest

PO Hoenle, M Staab, DA Donoso… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microhabitat differentiation of species communities such as vertical stratification in tropical
forests contributes to species coexistence and thus biodiversity. However, little is known …

The impacts of fire vary among vertical strata: Responses of ant communities to long‐term experimental burning

F Brassard, BP Murphy, AN Andersen - Ecological Applications, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a powerful tool for conservation management at a landscape scale, but a rigorous
evidence base is often lacking for understanding its impacts on biodiversity in different …

Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison

J Moses, MK Peters, Y Tiede, O Mottl… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Many studies demonstrate that climate limits invertebrates along tropical elevational
gradients, but we have only a rudimentary understanding of the role of nutrient limitation and …

Spatiotemporal distribution of herbivorous insects along always-green mountaintop forest islands

J Kuchenbecker, LE Macedo-Reis… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Insects make up the bulk of terrestrial diversity and about half of insect species are
herbivores that have direct relationships with their host plants and are the basis of the entire …

The role of morphological traits in predicting the functional ecology of arboreal and ground ants in the Cerrado–Amazon transition

RPS Almeida, FB Teresa, F Camarota, TJ Izzo… - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
There is often a vertical stratification of the vegetation in tropical forests, where each forest
stratum has a unique set of environmental conditions, including marked differences in …

Beta diversity and microhabitat use of ant assemblages in a white-sand vegetation gradient in central Amazonia

ABS de Oliveira, SH Borges, AT Paes… - Journal of Insect …, 2023 - Springer
Much of the remarkable beta diversity of the Amazon biome is associated with the variety of
vegetation types and other broad environmental gradients. We investigated ant …

Differential response of fire on the community dynamics of five insect taxa in a tropical mountaintop forest archipelago

J Kuchenbecker, F Camarota, PG da Silva… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's most diverse group of organisms is facing an imminent crisis, as recent
investigations suggest a remarkable decline in insect diversity. Within this context …

Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of subtropical ant communities with land-cover change

JM Kass, M Yoshimura… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Concerns about widespread human-induced declines in insect populations are mounting,
yet little is known about how land-use change modifies both the trends and variability of …

Rates of species turnover across elevation vary with vertical stratum in rainforest ant assemblages

L Leahy, BR Scheffers, AN Andersen, SE Williams - Ecography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic variation at local scales can influence both exposure and sensitivity of organisms
and thereby scale up to influence population persistence and community composition …