Biotic drivers of seedling establishment in Neotropical savannas: selective granivory and seedling herbivory by leaf-cutter ants as an ecological filter

dynamics
forest
rain-forest
seed predation
ecology
herbivory
predation
establishment
recruitment
savanna
seed
Cerrado
Atta laevigata
insect herbivory
ants
community
seedling establishment
tree
seedling
vegetation
brazilian
effect
community ecology
granivory
plantherbivore interaction
top-down effect
vegetation dynamics
woody-plants
insect
interaction
atlantic
cerrado
african
atta
cutting
fungus-growing
laevigata
plantherbivore
spp.
top-down
Authors

Alan N. Costa

Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

Emilio M. Bruna

Published

2017

Doi
Abstract
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