“…Furthermore, ants are sensitive to environmental variables and respond rapidly to anthropogenic changes (Del Toro, Ribbons, & Pelini, 2012). For instance, taxonomic and functional diversity of ants are lost during initial stages of secondary succession (Bihn, Verhaagh, Brändle, & Brandl, 2008; Rocha-Ortega et al., 2017) due to soil and vegetation condition changes (Schmidt, Ribas, & Schoereder, 2013). Given this context, ants are useful for testing hypotheses about secondary succession via the studying of nesting resource diversity changes (Murnen, Gonthier, & Philpott, 2013) and microhabitat conditions (Schmidt et al., 2013).…”