Thermal Tolerance and Species Distributions : Interactions Between Latitude, Elevation and Arboreality in Ants

Authors: Camara, Talita, Andersen, Alan N., Nascimento, Geraldo, Arnan, Xavier

Source: Diversity and Distributions, 2024 Nov 01. 30(11), 1-9.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48794418

Ant community recovery in regenerating Caatinga dry forest following slash-and-burn agriculture

Authors: Bombi-Haedo, Katherine ^a, Oliveira, Fernanda M.P. ^b, Arnan, Xavier ^c, Ribeiro-Neto, José Domingos ^d, Leal, Inara R. ^{e, ⁎}

Source: In Journal of Arid Environments March 2025 227

Photoidentification as a potential tool for individual recognition of Dendropsophus elegans (Anura: Hylidae)

Authors: Valesca Mendonça da Costa Santos, Lara, Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Geraldo, Arnan, Xavier

Source: In Journal for Nature Conservation September 2024 81

Messor erwini sp. n., a hitherto cryptic harvester ant in the Iberian Peninsula

Authors: Orou, Noel, Csősz, Sándor, Arnan, Xavier, Pol, Rodrigo G., Arthofer, Wolfgang, Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C., Steiner, Florian M.

Source: In Zoologischer Anzeiger November 2023 307:36-53

Fostering pollination through agroforestry: A global review

Authors: Centeno-Alvarado, Diego, Lopes, Ariadna Valentina, Arnan, Xavier

Source: In Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 1 August 2023 351

Aridity and chronic anthropogenic disturbances cause a taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic homogenization of ant communities in a Caatinga dry forest

Authors: Ribeiro-Neto, José Domingos, Oliveira, Fernanda Maria Pereira, Arcoverde, Gabriela Burle, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Leal, Inara Roberta, Arnan, Xavier

Source: In Biological Conservation August 2023 284

Increased temperatures could heighten vulnerability of an ant-plant mutualism.

Authors: Câmara, Talita, Cavalcante, Nathália Thais, Falcão, Hiram Marinho, Santana, Esther, dos Santos Silva Teixeira, Giselle, Arnan, Xavier

Source: Oecologia; Jan2025, Vol. 207 Issue 1, p1-12, 12p

Extrafloral nectar as a driver of ant community spatial structure along disturbance and rainfall gradients in Brazilian dry forest

Authors: da Silva, Carlos Henrique Félix, Arnan, Xavier, Andersen, Alan N., Leal, Inara R.

Source: Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2019 Nov 01. 35(6), 280-287.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26828505

Evidence for locally adaptive metabolic rates among ant populations along an elevational gradient

Authors: Shik, Jonathan Zvi, Arnan, Xavier, Oms, Cristela Sanchez, Cerdá, Xim, Boulay, Raphaël

Source: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019 Aug 01. 88(8), 1240-1249.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48579885

Effects of increasing aridity and chronic anthropogenic disturbance on seed dispersal by ants in Brazilian Caatinga

Authors: Oliveira, Fernanda M. P., Andersen, Alan N., Arnan, Xavier, Ribeiro-Neto, José D., Arcoverde, Gabriela B., Leal, Inara R.

Source: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019 Jun 01. 88(6), 870-880.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48579980

Divergent responses of plant reproductive strategies to chronic anthropogenic disturbance and aridity in the Caatinga dry forest

Authors: Silva, Jéssica Luiza S., Cruz-Neto, Oswaldo, Rito, Kátia F., Arnan, Xavier, Leal, Inara R., Peres, Carlos A., Tabarelli, Marcelo, Valentina Lopes, Ariadna

Source: In Science of the Total Environment 20 February 2020 704

Community responses to fine-scale environmental conditions: Ferns alpha and beta diversity along Brazilian Atlantic forest remnants

Authors: da Costa, Lucas Erickson Nascimento, Arnan, Xavier, de Paiva Farias, Rafael, Barros, Iva Carneiro Leão

Source: In Acta Oecologica November 2019 101

Food resource exploitation and functional resilience in ant communities found in common Mediterranean habitats

Authors: Arnan, Xavier, Molowny-Horas, Roberto, Blüthgen, Nico

Source: In Science of the Total Environment 20 September 2019 684:126-135

The extrafloral nectary traits of woody plants in Brazil's Caatinga: describing an ecological spectrum.

Authors: Cavalcante, Nathália Thais, Câmara, Talita, Falcão, Hiram Marinho, Arnan, Xavier

Source: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Oct2024, Vol. 143 Issue 2, p1-11, 11p

Subject Terms: WOODY plants, NECTARIES, NECTAR, LEGUMES, PHENOTYPES

Shaping pollinator diversity through coffee agroforestry management: A meta‐analytical approach.

Authors: Centeno‐Alvarado, Diego, Lopes, Ariadna Valentina, Arnan, Xavier

Source: Insect Conservation & Diversity; Sep2024, Vol. 17 Issue 5, p729-742, 14p

Subject Terms: AGRICULTURAL intensification, AGRICULTURE, CROP yields, POLLINATORS, COFFEE, AGROFORESTRY

Disentangling nutritional pathways linking leafcutter ants and their co-evolved fungal symbionts using stable isotopes

Authors: Shik, Jonathan Z., Rytter, Winnie, Arnan, Xavier, Michelsen, Anders

Source: Ecology, 2018 Sep 01. 99(9), 1999-2009.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26626201

Combined exposure to sublethal concentrations of an insecticide and a fungicide affect feeding, ovary development and longevity in a solitary bee

Authors: Sgolastra, Fabio, Arnan, Xavier, Cabbri, Riccardo, Isani, Gloria, Medrzycki, Piotr, Teper, Dariusz, Bosch, Jordi

Source: Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 2018 Aug . 285(1885), 1-8.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26545347

Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on the specialization of ant-plant mutualistic networks in the Caatinga, a Brazilian dry forest

Authors: Câmara, Talita, Leal, Inara R., Blüthgen, Nico, Oliveira, Fernanda M. P., de Queiroz, Rubens T., Arnan, Xavier

Source: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 Jul 01. 87(4), 1022-1033.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/45023533

Similar seed preferences explain trophic ecology of functionally distinct, but co-occurring and closely related harvester ants.

Authors: Pol, Rodrigo G.^1,2, rgpolo@yahoo.com.ar, Lázaro-González, Alba^3,4, Rodrigo, Anselm^5,6, Arnan, Xavier^5,7

Source: Oecologia; Dec2023, Vol. 203 Issue 3/4, p407-420, 14p

A framework for deriving measures of chronic anthropogenic disturbance: Surrogate, direct, single and multi-metric indices in Brazilian Caatinga

Authors: Arnan, Xavier, Leal, Inara R., Tabarelli, Marcelo, Andrade, Janete F., Barros, Maria Fabíola, Câmara, Talita, Jamelli, Davi, Knoechelmann, Clarissa M., Menezes, Tatiane G.C., Menezes, Artur G.S., Oliveira, Fernanda M.P., de Paula, Alexandre S., Pereira, Sílvia C., Rito, Kátia F., Sfair, Julia C., Siqueira, Felipe F.S., Souza, Danielle G., Specht, Maria J., Vieira, Ligia A., Arcoverde, Gabriela B., Andersen, Alan N.

Source: In Ecological Indicators November 2018 94 Part 1:274-282