Roads Increase Population Growth Rates of a Native Leaf-cutter Ant in Neotropical Savannahs
Emilio Bruna, ATBC member/ Biotropica Editor and colleagues from University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies and Brazil’s Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, noted an explosion in population of leaf-cutter ants along roadsides in the Brazilian savanna ecosystem known as the Cerrado. This study, published this month in the Journal of Applied Ecology, present data from field surveys demonstrating that […]