Increasing densities of leaf-cutting ants (Atta spp.) with proximity to the edge in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

By R. Wirth, S. Meyer, Walkiria R. Almeida, M. Araújo, V. S. Barbosa, I. Leal. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2007

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Tabarelli
2. I. Leal
3. Felipe P. L. Melo
4. J. Metzger
5. C. A. Peres
6. W. Laurance
7. S. Meyer
8. Milton Cezar Ribeiro

In Genetics

1. I. Leal
2. M. Tabarelli
3. W. Laurance
4. J. Metzger
5. R. Wirth

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Tabarelli
2. C. A. Peres
3. Felipe P. L. Melo
4. I. Leal
5. Milton Cezar Ribeiro
6. W. Laurance
7. J. Metzger
8. R. Wirth

Citations in the corpus

• Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, background): “, 2010a); a sort of functional homogenization that cascades to plant consumers (Wirth et al., 2007).”
• Plant Herbivore Interactions at the Forest Edge (2008, background): “5 times higher in the first 50-m edge zone than in the >100-m forest interior (Wirth et al. 2007).”
• The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests (2014, background): “…habitats such as pastures (Fowler 1983), plantations (Oliveira et al. 1998), forest remnants (Rao et al. 2001, Terborgh et al. 2001), edges (Wirth et al. 2007, Meyer et al. 2009, Dohm et al. 2011, Carvalho et al. 2012), secondary forests (Haines et al. 1990, Vasconcelos & Cherrett 1995,…”
• Prospects for biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest: Lessons from aging human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “, 2004; Aguiar and Tabarelli, in press), leaf-cutting ants (Wirth et al., 2007), disturbance-adapted and generalist frugivorous bats (Gorresen and Willig, 2004), matrix-tolerant marsupials (Pires et al.”
• Theory meets reality: How habitat fragmentation research has transcended island biogeographic theory (2008, background): “…of plant and animal populations can be dramatically altered in fragmented habitats in response to edge effects, reduced dispersal, altered disturbance regimes, and changing herbivore or predation pressure (Lidicker, 1973; Karieva, 1987; Quintana-Ascencio and Menges, 1996; Wirth et al., 2007).”