Alan N. Costa

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• Adaptive foraging of leaf-cutter ants to spatiotemporal changes in resource availability in Neotropical savannas
• Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna
• Biotic drivers of seedling establishment in Neotropical savannas: selective granivory and seedling herbivory by leaf-cutter ants as an ecological filter
• Dynamics of the Leaf-Litter Arthropod Fauna Following Fire in a Neotropical Woodland Savanna
• Do herbivores exert top‐down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf‐cutter ants