Mirmecólogos

Wesley Dáttilo

 Wesley Dáttilo, investigador del Instituto de Ecología AC (México) tomando muestras de interacciones hormiga-planta en la Reserva de la Biosfera Chamela-Cuixmala, Jalisco, México (© Wesley Dáttilo).

Línea de investigación

Interacciones ecológicas entre hormigas y plantas

Adscripción

Instituto de Ecología AC 

Red de Ecoetología

Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351

El Haya

Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

C.P. 91070

México

wesley.dattilo@inecol.mx

Biografía

Biólogo por la Universidad Estadual do Norte Fluminense (Brasil), maestro en Ecología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad pela Universidad Federal de Mato Grosso (Brasil) y doctor en Neuroetología pela Universidad Veracruzana (México). Por su desempeño recibió en 2015 el premio por la mejor tesis de doctorado de la Universidad Veracruzana. Desde 2015 trabaja como investigador titular en el Instituto de Ecología AC (INECOL). Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nível III. En su laboratorio, el Dr. Dáttilo junto con sus estudiantes y colaboradores combinan: modelaje matemático, teoría de grafos, sistemas de información geográfica, extensos inventarios de campo y banco de datos para comprender la dinámica ecológica y evolutiva de las interacciones entre los organismos, cual su papel para el mantenimiento de la biodiversidad, y como ellos son robustos a diferentes perturbaciones ambientales. Ha publicado al rededor de 150 artículos en revistas indizadas, algunos de ellos en importantes revistas como: Science, Global Change Biology, Biological Reviews, Current Biology, Ecology Letters. En el 2017 editó el libro “Ecological Networks in the Tropics” publicado por Springer y en el 2024 el libro “Effects of Climate Change on Insects” publicado por Oxford University Press. En cuanto a la formación de recursos humanos, ha tenido el privilegio de ser director de tesis de doctorado (n=9), maestría (n=12) y licenciatura (n=3). Acutalmente, es editor de las revistas Ecological Monographs, Sociobiology, Network Biology y EntomoBrasilis. Divulga sus informaciones en su sitio web: www.wesleydattilo.org

Producción

• Falcão, J.C.F.; Dáttilo, W.; Díaz-Castelazo, C.; Rico-Gray, V. (2017). Assessing the impacts of tramp and invasive species on the structure and dynamics of ant-plant interaction networks. Biological Conservation 209: 517-523.

• Fagundes, R.; Dáttilo, W.; Ribeiro, S.P.; Rico-Gray, V.; Jordano, P.; Del-Claro, K. (2017). Differences between ant species in plant protection are influenced by the production of extrafloral nectar and related to the degree of leaf herbivory. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 71-83.

• Belchior, M.; Neves, F.S.; Dáttilo, W.; Camarota, F. (2023). Species turnover increases ant-trophobiont interaction dissimilarities along a geographical gradient.  Insect Conservation and Diversity 16: 88-96

• Feitosa et al. (many authors including Dáttilo, W.) (2023). From species descriptions to diversity patterns: the validation of taxonomic data as a keystone for ant diversity studies reproducibility and accuracy. Royal Society Open Science 10: id221170.

• Juárez-Juárez, B.; Dáttilo, W.; Moreno, C. (2023). Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant-plant interaction networks: a global overview. Ecological Entomology 48: 269-283.

• Camarota, F.; Dáttilo, W.; da Silva, P.G.; Castro, F.S.; Beirão, M.V.; Corro, E.; Fernandes, G.W.; Neves, F.S. (2023). The spatial distribution of insect communities of a mountaintop forest archipelago is not correlated with landscape structure: a multitaxa approach. Insect Conservation and Diversity 16: 790-800.

• Queiroz et al. (many authors including Dáttilo, W.) (2023). Ant diversity decreases during the dry season: a meta- analysis of the effects of seasonality on ant richness and abundance. Biotropica 55: 29-39.

• Dáttilo, W.; Corro, E.; Ahuatzin, D.A.; Regolin, A.L.; López-Acosta, J.C.; Ribeiro, M.C. (2022). Scale of effect matters: forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks. Food Webs 33: e00256.

• Romero, G.Q.; Gonçalves-Souza, T.; Roslin, T.; Marquis, R.J.; Marino, N.A.C.; Novotny, V.; Cornelissen, T.; Orivel, J.; Sui, S.; Aires, G.; Antoniazzi, R.; Dáttilo, W. et al.  (2022). Climate variability and aridity modulate the role of leaf shelters for arthropods: a global experiment. Global Change Biology 28: 3694-3710.

• Ahuatzin, D.A.; González-Tokman, D.; Silva, R.R.; Valenzuela-González, J.E.; Escobar, F.; Ribeiro, M.C.;  López-Acosta, J.C.; Dáttilo, W. (2022). Forest cover modulates diversity and morphological traits of ants in highly fragmented tropical forest landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation 31, 2097–2117.

• Silva et al. (many authors including Dáttilo, W.) (2022). ATLANTIC ANTS: a dataset of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America. Ecology 103(2): e03580.

• Feitosa et al. (many authors including Dáttilo, W.) (2022). Ants of Brazil: an overview based on 50 years of diversity studies. Systematics and Biodiversity 20: id2089268.

• Pereira et al. (many authors including Dáttilo, W.) (2022). Subtle structures with not-so-subtle functions: a dataset of arthropod constructs and their host plants. Ecology 103(4): e3639.

• Miranda, P.N.; Ribeiro, J.E.L.S.; Corro, E.J.; Brasil, I.; Delabie, J.H.C.; Dáttilo, W.(2022). Structural stability of ant-plant mutualistic networks mediated by extrafloral nectaries to forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon. Sociobiology 69(3): e8261.

• Schmidt et al. (many authors including Dáttilo, W.) (2022). Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country. Insectes Sociaux 69: 105–121.

• Dáttilo, W. and MacGregor-Fors, I. (2021). Ant social foraging strategies along a Neotropical gradient of urbanization. Scientific Reports 11: id6119.

• Antoniazzi, R.; Camarota, F.; Leponce, M.; Dáttilo, W. (2021). Discovery-defense strategy as a mechanism of social foraging of ants in tropical rainforest canopies. Behavioral Ecology 32: 1022-1031.

• Pena, J.C.; Aoki-Gonçalves, F.; Dáttilo, W.; Ribeiro, M.C.; MacGregor-Fors, I. (2021). Caterpillars’ natural enemies and attack probability in an urbanization intensity gradient across a Neotropical streetscape. Ecological Indicators 128: id107851.

• Neves, F.S.; Da Silva, P.G.; Solar, R.; Nunes, C.A.; Beirão, M.V.; Brant, H.; Castro, F.S.; Dáttilo, W.; Guevara, R.; Fernandes, G.W. (2021). Habitat generalists drive nestedness in a tropical mountaintop insect metacommunity. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 577-586.

• Antoniazzi, R.; Guevara, R.; García-Franco, J.; Janda, M.; Leponce, M.; Dáttilo, W.  (2021). Environmental drivers of ant dominance in a tropical rainforest canopy at different spatial scales. Ecological Entomology 46: 440-450.

• Luna, P.; García-Chávez, J.H.; Izzo, T.; Sosa, V.J.; Del-Claro, K.; Dáttilo, W. (2021). Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants. Ecological Entomology 46: 816-826.

• Dáttilo, W. et al. (many authors) (2020). MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology 101: e02944.

• González-Tokman, D.; Córdoba-Aguilar, A.; Dáttilo, W.; Lira-Noriega, A.; Sánchez-Guillén, R.A.; Villalobos, F. (2020). Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world. Biological Reviews 95: 802-821.

• Silva, C.V.C.; Goldas, C.S.; Dáttilo, W.; Dröse, W.; Mendonça-Jr, M.S.; Podgaiski, L.R. (2020). Effects of time-since-fire on ant-plant interactions in southern Brazilian grasslands. Ecological Indicators 122: id106094.

• Antoniazzi, R.; Viana-Jr, A.; Pelayo-Martínez, J.; Ortiz-Lozada, L.; Neves, F.S.; Leponce, M.; Dáttilo, W. (2021). Distance-decay patterns differ between canopy and ground ant assemblages in a tropical rainforest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 36: 234-242.

• Antoniazzi, R.; García-Franco, J.; Janda, M.; Leponce, M.; Dáttilo, W. (2020). Diurnal foraging ant–tree co-occurrence networks are similar between canopy and understorey in a Neotropical rainforest. Biotropica 52: 717-729.

• Fernandes, T.T.; Dáttilo, W.; Silva, R.R., Luna, P.; Braz, A.B.; Morini, M.S.C. (2020). Cohabitation and niche overlap in the occupation of twigs by arthropods in the leaf litter of Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Insectes Sociaux 67: 239-247.

• Antoniazzi, R.; Ahuatzin, D.; Pelayo-Martínez. J.; Ortiz-Lozada, L.; Leponce, M.; Dáttilo, W. (2020). On the effectiveness of hand collection to complement baits when studying ant vertical stratification in tropical rainforests. Sociobiology 67: 213-222.

• Díaz-Castelazo, C.; Martínez-Adriano, C.A.; Dáttilo, W.; Rico-Gray, V. (2019). Relative contribution of ecological and biological attributes in the fine-grain structure of ant-plant networks. PeerJ 8: e8314.

• Pena, J.C.C.; Luna, P.; Aoki-Gonçalves, F.; Jacobo, M.F.C.; Patiño, T.M.; Sánchez-Morales, K.; Viver-Vázquez, M.; García-Chavez, J.H.; Dáttilo, W. (2020). I can see you: temporal variation in ant aggressiveness towards herbivores under continuous provision of high- or low-quality food sources. Sociobiology 67: 26-32.

• Dáttilo, W. and Vasconcelos, H.L. (2019). Macroecological patterns and correlates of ant-tree interaction networks in Neotropical savannas. Global Ecology and Biogeography28: 1283-1294.

• Dáttilo, W.; Vizentin-Bugoni, J.; Debastiani, V.; Jordano, P.; Izzo, T.J. (2019). The influence of spatial sampling scales on ant-plant interaction network architecture. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 903-914.

• Corro, E.J.; Ahuatzin, D.A.; Aguirre, A.; Favila, M.E..; Ribeiro, M.C.; Acosta, J.C.L.; Dáttilo, W. (2019). Forest cover and landscape heterogeneity shape ant-plant co-occurrence networks in human-dominated tropical rainforests. Landscape Ecology 34: 93-104.

• Fernandes, T.; Dáttilo, W.; Silva, R.R.; Luna, P.; Oliveira, C.; Morini, M.S.C. (2019). Ant occupation of twigs in the leaf litter of the Atlantic Forest: influence of the environment and external twig structure. Tropical Conservation Science 12: 1-9.

• Anjos, D.V.; Luna, P.; Borges, C.; Dáttilo, W.; Del-Claro, K. (2019). Structural changes over time in individual-based networks involving a harvester ant, seeds and invertebrates. Ecological Entomology 44: 753-761.

• Antoniazzi, R.; Garro, R.N.S.L.; Dáttilo, W.; Ribeiro, S.P.; Neves, F.S. (2019) Ant species richness and interactions in canopies of two distinct successional stages in a tropical dry forest. The Science of Nature 106: 20 (1-14).

• Ahuatzin, D.A.; Corro, E.J.; Aguirre, A.; Valenzuela-González, J.; Feitosa, R.M.; Ribeiro, M.C.; Acosta, J.C.; Coates, R.; Dáttilo, W. (2019). Forest cover drives leaf litter ant diversity in primary rainforest remnants within human-modified tropical landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 1091-1107.

• Miranda, P.N.; Ribeiro, J.E.L.S.; Luna, P.; Brasil, I.; Delabie, J.H.C.; Dáttilo, W. (2019). The dilemma of binary or weighted data in interaction networks. Ecological Complexity 38: 1-10.

• Izzo, T.J.; Piedade, M.T.F.; Dáttilo, W. (2018). Postponing the production of ant domatia as a strategy promoting an escape from flooding in an Amazonian myrmecophyte. Annals of Botany 122: 985-911.

• Koch, E.; Dáttilo, W.; Camarota, F.; Vasconcelos, H.L. (2018). From species to individuals: does the variation in ant-plant networks scale result in structural and functional changes?. Population Ecology 60: 309-3018.

• Anjos, D.V.; Dáttilo, W.; Del-Claro, K. (2018). Unmasking the architecture of ant–diaspore networks in the Brazilian Savanna. PLoS One 13: e0201117.

• Fagundes, R.; Lange, D.; Anjos, D.V.; Lima, F.P.; Nahas, L.; Corro, E.; Silva, P.B.G.; Del-Claro, K.; Ribeiro, S.P.; Dáttilo, W. (2018). Limited effects of fire disturbances on the species diversity and structure of ant-plant interaction networks in Brazilian Cerrado. Acta Oecologica 93: 65-73.

• Aguirre, A.; Dáttilo, W.; Rodríguez-Morales, D.; Canchola-Orozco, S.; Cocoletzi, E.; Coates, R.; Ángeles, G. (2018). Foraging ants on the extrafloral nectaries repel nectar thieves but not the effective pollinator of Vigna luteola (Fabaceae) in a Mexican coastal sand dune. Sociobiology 65: 621-629.

• Luna, P.; García-Chavez, J.; Dáttilo, W. (2018). Complex foraging ecology of the red harvester ant and its effect on the soil seed bank. Acta Oecologica 86: 57-65.

• Luna, P.; Peñaloza-Arellane, Y.; Castillo-Meza, A.L.; García-Chávez, J.H.; Dáttilo, W.(2018). Beta diversity of ant-plant interactions over day-night periods and plant physiognomies in a semiarid environment. Journal of Arid Environments 156: 69-76.

• Luna, P. and Dáttilo, W. (2018). A new protocol using artificial seeds to evaluate dietary preferences of harvester ants in semi-arid environments. Sociobiology 65: 149-154.

• Luna, P.; Anjos, D.V.; García-Chávez, J.H.; Dáttilo, W. (2018). Exploring the vegetation: Seed harvester ants climb and remove seeds from a giant cactus in a semiarid environment. Journal of Arid Environments 156:106-109.

• Flores-Flores, R.V.; Aguirre, A.; Anjos, D.V.; Neves, F.S.; Campos, R.I.; Dáttilo, W.(2018). Food source quality and ant dominance hierarchy influence the outcomes of ant-plant interactions in an arid environment. Acta Oecologica 87: 13-19.

• Roslin, T.; Hardwick, B.; Novotny, V.; Petry, W.K.; Andrew, N.R.; Asmus, A.; Barrio, I.C.; Basset, Y.; Boesing, A.L.; Bonebrake T.C.; Cameron, E.K. Dáttilo, W.; et al. (2017). Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations. Science 356: 742–744.

• Falcão, J.C.F.; Dáttilo, W.; Díaz-Castelazo, C.; Rico-Gray, V. (2017). Assessing the impacts of tramp and invasive species on the structure and dynamics of ant-plant interaction networks. Biological Conservation 209: 517-523.

• Fagundes, R.; Dáttilo, W.; Ribeiro, S.P.; Rico-Gray, V.; Jordano, P.; Del-Claro, K. (2017). Differences between ant species in plant protection are influenced by the production of extrafloral nectar and related to the degree of leaf herbivory. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 71-83.

• Dáttilo, W.; Lara-Rodríguez, N.; Jordano, P.; Guimarães-Jr, P.; Thompson, J.N.; Marquis, R.J.; Medeiros, L.P.; Ortiz-Pulido, R.; Marcos-García, M.A.; Rico-Gray, V. (2016). Unraveling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: id20161564.

• Dáttilo, W.; Aguirre, A.; De La Torre, L.P.; Kaminski, L.A.; García-Chavez, J.; Rico-Gray, V. (2016). Trait-mediated indirect interactions of ant shape on the attack of caterpillars and fruits. Biology Letters 12: id20160401.

• Falcão, J.C.F.; Dáttilo, W.; Rico-Gray, V. (2016). Sampling effort differences can lead to biased conclusions on the architecture of ant-plant interaction networks. Ecological Complexity 25: 44-52.

• DaRocha, W.; Neves, F.S.; Dáttilo, W.; Delabie, J.H.C. (2016). Epiphytic bromeliads as key components for maintenance of ant diversity and ant-bromeliad interactions in agroforestry system canopies. Forest Ecology and Management 372: 128-136.

• Fagundes, R.; Dáttilo, W.; Ribeiro, S.P.; Rico-Gray, V.; Del-Claro, K. (2016). Food sources availability and interspecific dominance as structural mechanisms of ant-plant-hemipteran multitrophic networks. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 10: 207-220.

• Falcão, J.C.F.; Dáttilo, W.; Izzo, T.J. (2015). Efficiency of different planted forests in recovering biodiversity and ecological interactions in Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 339: 105-111

• Dáttilo, W.; Aguirre, A.; Flores-Flores, R.; Fagundes, R.; Lange, D.; García-Chavez, J.; Del-Claro, K.; Rico-Gray, V. (2015). Secretory activity of extrafloral nectaries shaping multitrophic ant-plant-herbivore interactions in an arid environment. Journal of Arid Environments 114: 104-109.

• Dáttilo, W.; Marquitti, F.M.D.; Guimarães, P.R.; Izzo, T.J. (2014). The structure of ant-plant ecological networks: is abundance enough?. Ecology 95: 475-485.

• Dáttilo, W.; Díaz-Castelazo, C.; Rico-Gray, V. (2014). Ant dominance hierarchy determines the nested pattern in ant-plant networks. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 405-414.

• Dáttilo, W.; Fagundes, R.; Gurka, C.A.Q.; Silva, M.S.A.; Vieira, M.C.L.; Izzo, T.J.; Díaz-Castelazo, C.; Del-Claro, K.; Rico-Gray, V. (2014). Individual-based ant-plant networks: diurnal-nocturnal structure and species-area relationship. PLoS One 9(6): e99838.

• Dáttilo, W. and Dyer, L. (2014). Canopy openness enhances diversity of ant–plant interactions in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Biotropica 46: 712-719

• Dáttilo, W.; Sánchez-Gálvan, I.; Lange, D.; Del-Claro, K.; Rico-Gray, V. (2014). Importance of interaction frequency in analysis of ant-plant networks in tropical environments. Journal of Tropical Ecology 30: 165-168.

• Vicente, R.E.; Dáttilo, W.; Izzo, T.J. (2014). Differential recruitment of Camponotus femoratus (Fabricius, 1804) ants in response to ant-gardens herbivory. Neotropical Entomology 43: 519–525.

• Falcão, J.C.F.; Dáttilo, W.; Izzo, T.J. (2014). Temporal variation in extrafloral nectar secretion in different ontogenetic stages of the fruits of Alibertia verrucosa S. Moore (Rubiaceae) in a Neotropical savanna. Journal of Plant-Interactions 9: 137-142.

• Dáttilo, W.; Guimarães, P.R.; Izzo, T.J. (2013). Spatial structure of ant-plant mutualistic networks. Oikos 122: 1643-1648. 

• Dáttilo, W.; Izzo, T.J.; Vasconcelos, H.L.; Rico-Gray, V. (2013) Strength of the modular pattern in Amazonian symbiotic ant-plant networks. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 7: 455-461.

• Dáttilo, W.; Rico-Gray, V.; Rodrigues, D.J.; Izzo, T.J. (2013). Soil and vegetation features determine the nested pattern of ant-plant networks in a tropical rainforest. Ecological Entomology 38: 374-380.

• Lange, D.; Dáttilo, W.; Del-Claro, K. (2013). Influence of extrafloral nectary phenology on ant-plant mutualistic networks in a Neotropical Savanna. Ecological Entomology 38: 463-469.

• Dáttilo, W. (2012). Different tolerances of symbiotic and nonsymbiotic ant-plant networks to species extinctions. Network Biology 2(4): 127-138.

• Dáttilo, W.; Sibinel, N.; Falcão, J.C.F.; Nunes, R.V. (2011). Mirmecofauna em um fragmento de Floresta Atlântica urbana no município de Marília, Brasil. Bioscience Journal 27: 494-504.

• Dáttilo, W.; Vicente, R. E.; Nunes, R.V.; Carvalho, M.S.G. (2010). Primeiro registro da quenquém cisco-da-Amazônia Acromyrmex hystrix Latreille, 1802 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) para o estado do Maranhão, Brasil. EntomoBrasilis 3: 92-93.

• Dáttilo, W.; Izzo, T.J.; Inouye, B.D.; Vasconcelos, H.L.; Bruna, E.M. (2009). Recognition of host plant volatiles by Pheidole minutula Mayr (Myrmicinae), an Amazonian ant-plant specialist. Biotropica 41: 642-646.

• Dáttilo, W.; Marques, E.C.; Falcão, J.C.F.; Moreira, D.D.O. (2009). Interações mutualísticas entre formigas e plantas. EntomoBrasilis 2: 32-36.

• DePaula, A.R.; Vieira, L.P.; Dáttilo, W.; Carneiro, C.N.B.; Erthal Jr., M.; Brito, E. S.; Silva, C.P.; Samuels, R.I. (2006). Patogenicidade e efeito comportamental de Photorhabdus temperata K122 nas formigas cortadeiras Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus e Atta laevigata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). O Biológico 68: 118-122.

• Dáttilo, W.; Erthal Jr., M.; Moreira, D.D.O.; Silva, C.P.; Samuels, R.I. (2006). Sobrevivência de operárias da formiga cortadeira Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) quando supridas com diferentes dietas e inibidores enzimáticos. O Biológico 68: 113-117.