H. L. Vasconcelos

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• 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
• Roads increase population growth rates of a native leaf-cutter ant in Neotropical savannahs
• Effect of mutualist partner identity on plant demography
• Fauna in decline: Meek shall inherit
• Attack frequency and the tolerance to herbivory of Neotropical savanna trees
• Resilient Networks of Ant-Plant Mutualists in Amazonian Forest Fragments
• Asymmetric dispersal and colonization success of Amazonian plant-ants queens
• The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation
• 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
• Mudanças fitofisionômicas no Cerrado: 18 anos de sucesão ecológica na Estação Ecológica do Panga, Uberlândia, MG.
• 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
• Roads alter the colonization dynamics of a keystone herbivore in neotropical savannas
• Ant-tended hemiptera in Amazonian myrmecophytes: patterns of abundance and implications for mutualism function
• The effect of habitat fragmentation on communities of mutualists: Amazonian ants and their host plants
• Amizade tênue: relações mutualísticas entre plantas e formigas na Amazônia.
• Interspecific variation in the defensive responses of obligate plant-ants: experimental tests and consequences for herbivory.
• Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments, a 22 year investigation