Ants, normally thought as enemies of termites, can help them to reduce the pressure from termitophile invasion in termite nests. Fire-induced disturbance boosted coexistence of termites and non-social termitophiles via the habitat amelioration that termitaria provided under wildfire. Simultaneously, harsh conditions enhanced termitaria defense by social termitophiles.
A new paper from our collaboration with the Graduate School of Ecology, UFMG, appearin in Ecology and Evolution DOI:10.1002/ece3.3601
