Spatio-temporal permanence and plasticity of foraging trails in young and mature leaf-cutting ant colonies (Atta spp.)

By Christian Kost, E. G. Oliveira, T. Knoch, R. Wirth. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2005

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Cutting More from Cut Forests: Edge Effects on Foraging and Herbivory of Leaf‐Cutting Ants in Brazil (2007, background): “Long-term foraging activities of Atta colonies are largely focused along the trunk trail system, which makes up only parts of the potentially available foraging range around the nest (Wirth et al. 2003, Kost et al. 2005).”
The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests (2014, background): “…up to five adult colonies per hectare (Wirth et al. 2007), some habitats (e.g., early successional forests) can be entirely exposed to LCA foraging activity (Silva et al. 2009), although harvesting is closely confined to plants directly accessible via the foraging trail network (Kost et al. 2005).”