Leaf‐cutting ants are notable for their dual role as both potent herbivores and ecosystem engineers, shaping forest ecosystems through direct defoliation and indirect modifications of the physical ...
CONCORD, N.H. — Ian Halm was walking in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in North Woodstock, N.H., last week when he encountered an unwelcome sight: leaves from a beech tree with a few dark ...
Leaf-cutter ant nests are biogeochemical hot spots where ants live and import vegetation to grow fungus. Metabolic activity and (in wet tropical forests) soil gas flux to the nest may result in high ...