1. Ant foraging on foliage can substantially affect how phytophagous insects use host plants and represents a high predation risk for caterpillars, which are important folivores. Ant–plant–herbivore i
Data corresponding to Fig. 7a of the manuscript. Correlation of prey bank community dissimilarities (Bray-Curtis, based on presence/absence of species) with geographic distance (m) between bank centro
BS, Bare soil, number of points with no species; S, species richness (Shrub species/Grass species); S/point, mean number of species at each point; Ev, evenness (Shannon diversity/log(S)); A/point, mea
The full model includes all the explanatory variables that were retained after backward elimination in the models accounting for 1. forest structure, 2. abiotic environmental factors and 3. spatial di