The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus-cultivar provisioning in free-ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant
A. J. J. Crumiere, A. James, P. Lannes, S. Mallett, A. Michelsen, R. Rinnan, J. Z. Shik
This study examines how the nutritional requirements of a fungal cultivar influence the foraging behavior of Atta colombica leafcutter ants in a Panamanian rainforest.
bioRxiv · Feb 22, 2021Ecology