Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

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• Effects of experimental nitrogen enrichment on soil properties and litter decomposition in a Neotropical savanna
• Effects of experimental nitrogen enrichment on soil properties and litter decomposition in a Neotropical savanna
• 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
• Seed removal patterns of pioneer trees in an agricultural landscape
• 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
• Fire drives the reproductive responses of herbaceous plants in a Neotropical swamp
• Arthropod responses to the experimental isolation of Amazonian forest fragments
• Attack frequency and the tolerance to herbivory of Neotropical savanna trees
• Resilient Networks of Ant-Plant Mutualists in Amazonian Forest Fragments
• Short-term effects of elevated precipitation and nitrogen on soil fertility and plant growth in a Neotropical savanna
• Asymmetric Dispersal and Colonization Success of Amazonian Plant-Ants Queens
• Seed predators limit plant recruitment in Neotropical savannas
• The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation
• Mammalia, Estação Ecológica do Panga, a Cerrado protected area in Minas Gerais state, Brazil
• Dynamics of the Leaf-Litter Arthropod Fauna Following Fire in a Neotropical Woodland Savanna
• Recognition of Host Plant Volatiles by Pheidole minutula Mayr (Myrmicinae), an Amazonian Ant-Plant Specialist: Host-Plant Selection by a Plant-Ant
• Do herbivores exert top‐down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf‐cutter ants
• Interspecific variation in the defensive responses of ant mutualists to plant volatiles
• 2007 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation
• Roads Alter the Colonization Dynamics of a Keystone Herbivore in Neotropical Savannas
• 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
• Contrasting responses to induction cues by ants inhabiting Maieta guianensis (Melastomataceae)
• Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation