Published December 6, 2019 | Version v0.0.5

ATTA Biogeochemistry Data Collection

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Datasets collected as part of the collaborative projects studying the impact of leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) on biogeochemical cycling in tropical rainforest soils.

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Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
RAPID: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ENSO and Tropical Rain Forest Soil Carbon (CH4, CO2) Fluxes 1624623
U.S. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Quantifying the footprint of a dominant organism: Biogeochemical impacts of leaf cutter ants in a lowland tropical forest ecosystem 1442714

References

  • Allen, MF (2016). If you want to understand nature, stick your head in the sand! Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture
  • Aronson, EL, Dierick, D, Botthoff, JK, Oberbauer, S, Zelikova, TJ, Harmon, TC, Rundel, P, Johnson, RF, Swanson, AC, Pinto-Tomas, AA, Artavia-Leon, A, Matarrita-Carranza, B, Allen, MF (2019). ENSO-influenced drought drives methane flux dynamics in a tropical wet forest soil. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004832
  • Fernandez-Bou, AS, Dierick, D, Swanson, AC, Allen, MF, Alvarado, AGF, Artavia-León, A, Carrasquillo-Quintana, O, Lachman, DA, Oberbauer, S, Pinto-Tomás, AA, Rodríquez-Reyes, Y, Rundel, P, Schwendenmann, L, Zelikova, TJ, Harmon, TC (2019). The role of the ecosystem engineer, the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes, on soil CO2 dynamics in a wet tropical rainforest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004723
  • Harmon, TC, Dierick, D, Trahan, N, Allen, MF, Rundel, PW, Oberbauer, SF, Schwendenmann, L, Zelikova TJ (2015). Low-cost soil CO2 efflux and point concentration sensing systems for terrestrial ecology applications. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12426
  • Swanson, AC, Schwendenmann, L, Allen, MF, Aronson EL, Artavia-León, A, Dierick, D, Fernandez-Bou, AS, Harmon, TC, Murillo-Cruz, C, Oberbauer, SF, Pinto-Tomás, AA, Rundel, PW, Zelikova, TJ (2019). Welcome to the Atta world. A framework for understanding the effects of lead-cutter ants on ecosystem functions. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13319