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 ...

Abundance is a key parameter in microbial ecology, and important to estimates of potential metabolite flux, impacts of dispersal, and sensitivity of samples to technical biases such as laboratory ...

The giant Amazonian ant, Dinoponera gigantea, is considered the largest living ant species, reaching lengths of 3 to 4 cm for the females. Native to the unflooded parts of the Amazon rainforest in ...