Trying to unravel Darwin's entangled bank further, we describe the architecture of a network
involving multiple forms of mutualism (pollination by animals, seed dispersal by birds and …

Extrafloral nectar is the main food source offered by plants to predatory ants in most land
environments. Although many studies have demonstrated the importance of extrafloral …

The simplification of native habitats leads to biodiversity decline in tropical terrestrial
ecosystems. We evaluated how conversion of three types of native Cerrado vegetation …

Despite the importance and increasing knowledge of ecological networks, sampling effort
and intrapopulation variation has been widely overlooked. Using continuous daily sampling …

Plants bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFN s) vary the secretion of nectar between day and
night, which creates turnover in the composition of interacting ant species. Daily variation in …

Knowledge of the mechanisms that shape biodiversity is essential to understand the
ecological and evolutionary dynamics of interacting species. Recent studies posit that most …

Ants are abundant in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in the Brazilian Cerrado, where they
can play several roles at different levels of the food chain, including protection of plants …

In this study, we evaluated the effects of the secretory activity of nectaries on multitrophic
interactions involving ants and herbivores foraging on individuals of Prosopis laevigata …

Animals are integrated into the wider ecosystem via their foraging and behavior. The
compensation hypothesis predicts that animals target their foraging efforts (i) toward …

Despite the increasing number of studies dealing with interaction networks in the last few
years, there is still a lack of knowledge about how their structural organization are affected …