About the Authors

Alain Dejean

alain.dejean@wanadoo.fr

Affiliation Écologie des Forêts de Guyane, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8172, Campus agronomique, BP 709, Kourou, France

Brian L. Fisher

Affiliation Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Bruno Corbara

Affiliation Laboratoire Microorganismes Génome et Environnement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6023, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France

Raymond Rarevohitra

Affiliation Département de Recherches Forestières et Piscicoles, BP 904, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Richard Randrianaivo

Affiliation Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, BP 4096, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Balsama Rajemison

Affiliation Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, BP 4096, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Maurice Leponce

Affiliation Biological Evaluation Section, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD BLF BC. Performed the experiments: AD BLF BC. Analyzed the data: AD ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD BLF BC BR ML. Wrote the paper: AD BC ML. Identified the ants: BLF BR. Identified the trees: RR RR.