E. M. Bruna

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• 2022 ATBC Honorary Fellows
• 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
• Editorial board members are a non-random sample of ecological experts
• A persistent lack of international representation on editorial boards in environmental biology
• Biotic drivers of seedling establishment in Neotropical savannas: selective granivory and seedling herbivory by leaf-cutter ants as an ecological filter
• Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change
• The contribution of theory and experiments to conservation in fragmented landscapes
• A Balanced Data Archiving Policy for Long-Term Studies
• Roads increase population growth rates of a native leaf-cutter ant in Neotropical savannahs
• A Word from the Editor-in-Chief
• Effect of mutualist partner identity on plant demography
• Fauna in decline: Meek shall inherit
• On Identifying Rising Stars in Ecology
• Women are underrepresented on the editorial boards of journals in environmental biology and natural resource management
• Attack frequency and the tolerance to herbivory of Neotropical savanna trees
• Experimental Test for Facilitation of Seedling Recruitment by the Dominant Bunchgrass in a Fire-Maintained Savanna
• Resilient Networks of Ant-Plant Mutualists in Amazonian Forest Fragments
• Asymmetric dispersal and colonization success of Amazonian plant-ants queens
• Edge effects on growth and biomass partitioning of an Amazonian understory herb (Heliconia acuminata; Heliconiaceae)
• Growth of an understory herb is chronically reduced in Amazonian forest fragments
• The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation
• Volume and geographical distribution of ecological research in the Andes and the Amazon, 1995-2008.
• Altered resource availability and the population dynamics of tree species in Amazonian secondary forests
• Alternative spatial sampling in studies of plant demography: consequences for estimates of population growth rate
• Effects of forest fragmentation on the seedling recruitment of a tropical herb: assessing seed vs. safe-site limitation
• Effects of resource availability on seedling recruitment in a fire-maintained savanna
• Influence of post-clearing treatment on the recovery of herbaceous plant communities in amazonian secondary forests
• Scientific journals can advance tropical biology and conservation by requiring data archiving
• Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understory Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata
• Cooperative colony founding alters the outcome of interspecific competition between Amazonian plant-ants
• Dynamics of the leaf-litter arthropod fauna following fire in a Neotropical woodland savanna
• Habitat fragmentation and plant populations: is what we know demographically irrelevant?
• Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility
• Recognition of Host Plant Volatiles by Pheidole minutula Mayr (Myrmicinae), an Amazonian Ant-Plant Specialist
• Do herbivores exert top-down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf-cutter ants
• Efeitos da herbivoria por formigas do gênero Atta Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) sobre a vegetação do Cerrado.
• The geographical and institutional distribution of ecological research in the tropics
• A graduate education framework for tropical conservation and development
• Effects of plant age, experimental nutrient addition and ant occupancy on herbivory in a neotropical myrmecophyte
• Roads alter the colonization dynamics of a keystone herbivore in neotropical savannas
• A delicate balance in Amazonia.
• Ant-tended hemiptera in Amazonian myrmecophytes: patterns of abundance and implications for mutualism function
• Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth
• Demographic effects of habitat fragmentation on a tropical herb: Life-table response experiments
• Forest fragments and tropical plant reproduction in Amazonian Brazil.
• Regeneration and population structure of Heliconia acuminata in Amazonian secondary forests with contrasting land-use histories
• The compensatory responses of an understory herb to experimental damage are habitat-dependent
• The effect of habitat fragmentation on communities of mutualists: Amazonian ants and their host plants
• Interspecific variation in the defensive responses of obligate plant-ants: experimental tests and consequences for herbivory.
• Are plant populations in fragmented habitats recruitment limited? Tests with an Amazonian herb
• Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments, a 22 year investigation
• Effects of forest fragmentation on Heliconia acuminata seedling recruitment in central Amazonia
• Experimental assessment of Heliconia acuminata growth in a fragmented Amazonian landscape
• Habitat fragmentation and the demographic structure of an Amazonian understory herb (Heliconia acuminata)
• Pursuing the big questions about interspecific mutualism: a review of theoretical approaches
• Seed germination in rainforest fragments
• Morphological and genetic evolution appear decoupled in Pacific skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Emoia)
• New evidence of habitat segregation between two cryptic species of Pacific skinks (Emoia cyanura and E. impar)
• Cryptic species of Pacific skinks (Emoia): Further support from mitochondrial DNA sequences