Leaf-Cutting Ants (Atta cephalotes) Select Nitrogen-Rich Forage

Name: Leaf-Cutting Ants (Atta cephalotes) Select Nitrogen-Rich Forage
Creator: Cory W. Berish
Keywords: 0106 biological sciences, 15. Life on land, 01 natural sciences

Cory W. Berish

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Leaf-Cutting Ants (Atta cephalotes) Select Nitrogen-Rich Forage

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1986Publisher:JSTORJournal:American Midland Naturalist, volume 115, page 268 (issn: 0003-0031,

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Authors: Cory W. Berish;

doi: 10.2307/2425863

Leaf-Cutting Ants (Atta cephalotes) Select Nitrogen-Rich Forage

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Two colonies of the leaf-cutting ant (Atta cephalotes L.) at Turrialba, Costa Rica, foraged on a restricted subset of the total available plant species, generally preferring introduced cultivars over native plants, but sampling many early successional species. Feeding preferences were related to elemental composition of leaves. Atta cephalotes preferred leaves with high concentrations of N and P, but with low concentrations of Mn and Al.

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