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Landscape and farm scale management to enhance biodiversity conservation in the cocoa producing region of southern Bahia, Brazil by Cassano, Camila R, Schroth, Götz, Faria, Deborah, Delabie, Jacques H. C, Bede, Lucio

“…In southern Bahia, Brazil, large land areas are used for the production of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), which is predominantly grown under the shade of native…”
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Hollow Internodes Permit a Neotropical Understory Plant to Shelter Multiple Mutualistic Ant Species, Obtaining Protection and Nutrient Provisioning (Myrmecotrophy) by Dejean, Alain, Petitclerc, Frédéric, Compin, Arthur, Azémar, Frédéric, Corbara, Bruno, Delabie, Jacques H. C., Leroy, Céline

“…The Neotropical understory plant Tachia guianensis (Gentianaceae)—known to shelter the colonies of several ant species in its hollow trunks and branches—does…”
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The ecology and feeding habits of the arboreal trap-jawed ant Daceton armigerum by Dejean, Alain, Delabie, Jacques H C, Corbara, Bruno, Azémar, Fréderic, Groc, Sarah, Orivel, Jérôme, Leponce, Maurice

“…Here we show that Daceton armigerum, an arboreal myrmicine ant whose workers are equipped with hypertrophied trap-jaw mandibles, is characterized by a set of…”
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Ant–plant relationships in the canopy of an Amazonian rainforest: the presence of an ant mosaic by Dejean, Alain, Orivel, Jérôme, Leponce, Maurice, Compin, Arthur, Delabie, Jacques H C, Azémar, Frédéric, Corbara, Bruno

“…Using different techniques to access the canopy of an Amazonian rainforest, we inspected 157 tree crowns for arboreal ants. Diversity statistics showed that…”
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Contribution of cocoa plantations to the conservation of native ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a special emphasis on the Atlantic Forest fauna of southern Bahia, Brazil by Delabie, Jacques H. C, Jahyny, Benoît, do Nascimento, Ivan Cardoso, Mariano, Cléa S. F, Lacau, Sébastien, Campiolo, Sofia, Philpott, Stacy M, Leponce, Maurice

“…By maintaining a forest-like structure, shaded cocoa plantations contribute to the conservation of ants that usually live in the soil, leaf litter or canopy of…”
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First Records of the Exotic Ant Strumigenys rogeri, Emery 1890 in Brazil by Santos-Neto, Esperidião Alves dos, Koch, Elmo Borges A., Arnhold, Alexandre, Delabie, Jacques H. Charles

“…Strumigenys Smith, 1860 is a megadiverse ant genus with 858 species distributed worldwide. These ants forage and nest in leaf litter, rotten wood, dried leaves…”
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Reproductive system, social organization, human disturbance and ecological dominance in native populations of the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata by Foucaud, Julien, Orivel, Jerome, Fournier, Denis, Delabie, Jacques H.C, Loiseau, Anne, Le Breton, Julien, Cerdan, Philippe, Estoup, Arnaud

“…The invasive ant species Wasmannia auropunctata displays both ecologically dominant and non-dominant populations within its native range. Three factors could…”
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Conservation in tropical landscape mosaics: the case of the cacao landscape of southern Bahia, Brazil by Schroth, Götz, Faria, Deborah, Araujo, Marcelo, Bede, Lucio, Van Bael, Sunshine A., Cassano, Camila R., Oliveira, Leonardo C., Delabie, Jacques H. C.

“…A recent debate has contrasted two conservation strategies in agricultural landscapes; either “land sparing” farm development combining intensive production…”
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Environmental determinants of leaf litter ant community composition along an elevational gradient by Fichaux, Mélanie, Vleminckx, Jason, Courtois, Elodie A., Delabie, Jacques, Galli, Jordan, Tao, Shengli, Labrière, Nicolas, Chave, Jérôme, Baraloto, Christopher, Orivel, Jérôme

“…Ant communities are extremely diverse and provide a wide variety of ecological functions in tropical forests. Here, we investigated the abiotic factors driving…”
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Inherited biotic protection in a neotropical pioneer plant by Dejean, Alain, Corbara, Bruno, Leroy, Céline, Delabie, Jacques H C, Rossi, Vivien, Céréghino, Régis

“…Chelonanthus alatus is a bat-pollinated, pioneer Gentianaceae that clusters in patches where still-standing, dried-out stems are interspersed among live…”
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Ants as biological indicators of Wayana Amerindian land use in French Guiana by Delabie, Jacques H C, Céréghino, Régis, Groc, Sarah, Dejean, Andrea, Gibernau, Marc, Corbara, Bruno, Dejean, Alain

“…We examined the ecological impact of traditional land use by Wayana Amerindians in French Guiana using ants as bio-indicators. Ants were sampled through a…”
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Pliocene and Pleistocene events shaping the genetic diversity within the central corridor of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by RESENDE, HELDER C, YOTOKO, KARLA S.C, DELABIE, JACQUES H.C, COSTA, MARCO A, CAMPIOLO, SOFIA, TAVARES, MARA G, CAMPOS, LUCIO A.O, FERNANDES‐SALOMÃO, TÂNIA M

“…Dinoponera lucida (Formicidae; Ponerinae) is an extinction‐threatened species of ant which is endemic in the central corridor of the Atlantic Forest. We used…”
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Traits allowing some ant species to nest syntopically with the fire ant Solenopsis saevissima in its native range by Dejean, Alain, Corbara, Bruno, Céréghino, Régis, Leponce, Maurice, Roux, Olivier, Rossi, Vivien, Delabie, Jacques H. C, Compin, Arthur

“…Supercolonies of the red fire ant Solenopsis saevissima （Smith） develop in disturbed environments and likely alter the ant community in the native range of the…”
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Testes and Spermatozoa as Characters for Distinguishing Two Ant Species of the Genus Neoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Barcellos, Marcelo S, Martins, Luiza C. B, Cossolin, Jamile F. S, Serrão, José Eduardo, Delabie, Jacques H. C, Lino-Neto, José

“…We examined the morphologies of the testes and spermatozoa of the ant species Neoponera inversa (Smith) and Neoponera villosa (F.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae),…”
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The diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) interacting with the invasive hibiscus mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green 1908) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on ornamental and cultivated plants in Bahia, Brazil by Marques, Thamy E. D., de Azevedo Koch, Elmo Borges, dos Santos, Igor Silva, dos Santos, José Raimundo Maia, dos Santos Ferreira Mariano, Cléa, Delabie, Jacques H. C.

“…Biological invasions by exotic species are among the major threats to biodiversity worldwide. The pink hibiscus mealybug (PHM) Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green…”
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A Cytogenetic Approach to the Study of Neotropical Odontomachus and Anochetus Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Santos, Igor S, Costa, Marco A, Mariano, Clea S. F, Delabie, Jacques H. C, Andrade-Souza, Vanderly, Silva, Janisete G

“…Odontomachus (Latreille) and Anochetus (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) are closely related pantropical genera of ponerine ants that share…”
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Sex and Clonality in the Little Fire Ant by Foucaud, Julien, Fournier, Denis, Orivel, Jérôme, Delabie, Jacques H. C., Loiseau, Anne, Le Breton, Julien, Kergoat, Gaël J., Estoup, Arnaud

“…Reproduction systems are controlling the creation of new genetic variants as well as how natural selection can operate on these variants. Therefore, they had…”
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Ant Mosaic Revisited: Dominant Ant Species Disassemble Arboreal Ant Communities but Co-Occur Randomly by Sanders, Nathan J., Crutsinger, Gregory M., Dunn, Robert R., Majer, Jonathan D., Delabie, Jacques H. C.

“…The spatial distributions of many tropical arboreal ant species are often arranged in a mosaic such that dominant species have mutually exclusive distributions…”
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Worldwide invasion by the little fire ant: routes of introduction and eco‐evolutionary pathways by Foucaud, Julien, Orivel, Jérôme, Loiseau, Anne, Delabie, Jacques H. C., Jourdan, Hervé, Konghouleux, Djoël, Vonshak, Merav, Tindo, Maurice, Mercier, Jean‐Luc, Fresneau, Dominique, Mikissa, Jean‐Bruno, McGlynn, Terry, Mikheyev, Alexander S., Oettler, Jan, Estoup, Arnaud

“…Biological invasions are generally thought to occur after human aided migration to a new range. However, human activities prior to migration may also play a…”
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Ant species diversity in the 'Grands Causses' (Aveyron, France): In search of sampling methods adapted to temperate climates by Groc, Sarah, Delabie, Jacques H C, Céréghino, Régis, Orivel, Jérôme, Jaladeau, Frédéric, Grangier, Julien, Mariano, Cléa S F, Dejean, Alain

“…This study aimed at showing the applicability of using a combination of four sampling methods (i.e., Winkler extractors, pitfall traps, baiting and manual…”
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