Rainer Wirth

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

Frédéric Mahé, Colomban de Vargas, David Bass et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · 336 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Soil Sciences +14

Candicidin-producing <i>Streptomyces</i> support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus <i>Escovopsis</i>

Susanne Haeder, Rainer Wirth, Hubert Herz et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 285 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Microbiology +17

Chemical basis of the synergism and antagonism in microbial communities in the nests of leaf-cutting ants

Ilka Schoenian, Michael Spiteller, Manoj Ghaste et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 189 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Microbiology +17

Why South-east Asia should be the world’s priority for averting imminent species extinctions, and a call to join a developing cross-institutional programme to tackle this urgent issue

J. W. Duckworth, G. Batters, Jerrold L. Belant et al. · British Journal of Cancer · 2012 · 162 citations · Full text

Natural Resources, Biodiversity Conservation, Conservation Biology +16

The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests

Inara R. Leal, Rainer Wirth, Marcelo Tabarelli · Biotropica · 2014 · 155 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Landscape Ecology +17