Why are leaf‐cutting ants more common in early secondary forests than in old‐growth tropical forests? An evaluation of the palatable forage hypothesis

By A. Farji-Brener. 2001

140 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. I. Leal
2. M. Tabarelli
3. R. Wirth
4. H. H. De Fine Licht
5. J. Boomsma
6. A. Rodewald
7. A. Vitz
8. A. Farji-Brener

In Genetics

1. I. Leal
2. M. Tabarelli
3. R. Wirth
4. H. H. De Fine Licht
5. J. Boomsma
6. A. Rodewald
7. A. Vitz
8. A. Farji-Brener

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. I. Leal
2. M. Tabarelli
3. R. Wirth
4. A. Rodewald
5. A. Vitz
6. J. Boomsma
7. H. H. De Fine Licht
8. A. Farji-Brener

Citations in the corpus

• Forage collection, substrate preparation, and diet composition in fungus‐growing ants (2010, background): “Long-term studies of diet composition in attine ants have revealed that choice of substrate is not necessarily constrained by availability (Farji-Brener, 2001), but often dependent on the season (Rockwood, 1976; Leal & Oliveira, 2000; Seal & Tschinkel, 2008).”
• Increasing densities of leaf-cutting ants (Atta spp.) with proximity to the edge in a Brazilian Atlantic forest (2007, background): “…1983) has been most frequently invoked to explain high abundances of leaf-cutting ants in secondary forests (Farji-Brener 2001, Jaffe & Vilela 1989, Vasconcelos & Cherrett 1995) because the ants show a clear preference for early successional food plants (Farji-Brener 2001, Wirth et al. 2003).”
• The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests (2014, background): “There are also more pioneer species (Laurance et al. 2006, Santos et al. 2008) that are preferred by LCA (Farji-Brener 2001, Wirth et al. 2003, Falc~ao et al. 2011).”
• Leaf-cutting ants revisited: Towards rational management and control (2012, background): “The high degree of polyphagy and adaptability of these LC ants enables them to attack a wide range of plant tissues and species, although they do not harvest all plant materials with the same intensity (Howard 1987; Howard et al. 1988; Farji-Brener 2001).”
• VEGETATIVE AND FRUIT RESOURCES AS DETERMINANTS OF HABITAT USE BY MATURE-FOREST BIRDS DURING THE POSTBREEDING PERIOD (2007, background): “In fact, arthropods may prefer to graze on leaves of early-successional species (Edwards-Jones and Brown 1993, Farji-Brener 2001) because of their high nutritional value and low levels of secondary compounds (Coley 1983).”