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Endophytic fungi reduce leaf-cutting ant damage to seedlings [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2010 Our study examines how the mutualism between Atta colombica leaf-cutting ants and their cultivated fungus is influenced by the presence of diverse foliar endophytic fungi (endophytes) at high densities in tropical leaf tissues.
Bittleston, L. S. +3 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa +4 more
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Putting the waste out: a proposed mechanism for transmission of the mycoparasite Escovopsis between leafcutter ant colonies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The attine ant system is a remarkable example of symbiosis. An antagonistic partner within this system is the fungal parasite Escovopsis, a genus specific to the fungal gardens of the Attini.
Juliana O. Augustin +4 more
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New Light on the Systematics of Fungi Associated with Attine Ant Gardens and the Description ofﾠEscovopsis kreiseliiﾠsp. nov. [PDF]
, 2015 Since the formal description of fungi in the genus Escovopsis in 1990, only a few studies have focused on the systematics of this group. For more than two decades, only two Escovopsis species were described; however, in 2013, three additional Escovopsis ...
Meirelles, Lucas A. +3 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Disturbance‐driven changes in rainforest structure and environmental conditions can alter ecosystem functioning, yet the consequences for invertebrate communities – key contributors to decomposition, herbivory, and trophic interactions – are not fully understood, particularly in relation to structural changes in vegetation.
Charlotte E. Raven +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Leaf-cutting ants of the genus Atta are an important insect pest in forest plantations in many countries of South America. The objective of this work was to evaluate the potential for using Landsat-8 images, with medium spatial resolution and distributed
Isabel Carolina de Lima Santos +6 more
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Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.Different percentages of ANT affected the physical and mechanical characteristics of the film. The results indicated that this produced film is a useful tool for monitoring the freshness of food products.. ABSTRACT In recent years, growing environmental concerns have promoted the use of natural and biodegradable polymers in food packaging applications.
Ebrahim Biabani Aghdam +3 more
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Association between Pseudonocardia symbionts and Atta leaf-cutting ants suggested by improved isolation methods [PDF]
, 2013 Fungus-growing ants associate with multiple symbiotic microbes, including Actinobacteria for production of antibiotics.The best studied of these bacteria are within the genus Pseudonocardia, which in most fungus-growing ants are conspicuouslyvisible on ...
Adrián Pinto-Tomás +5 more
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Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee +3 more
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Collective action in ant control: [PDF]
Leaf-cutting ants (Atta. cephalotes) represents a serious problem to farmers in many parts of Latin America and accounts of ants eating up a whole cassava plot or destroying one or more fruit trees overnight are not uncommon.
de la Cruz, Ana Milena +3 more
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