RESEARCH ARTICLE A Tank Bromeliad Favors Spider Presence in a Neotropical Inundated Forest Yann He´naut1*, Bruno Corbara2,3, Laurent Pe´lozuelo4,5, Fre´de´ric Aze´mar4,5, Re´gis Ce´re´ghino4,5, Bruno Herault6, Alain Dejean4,5,7 1. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Departamento de Conservacio´n de la Biodiversidad, Quintana Roo, Chetumal, Mexico, 2. Universite´ Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire Microorganismes, Ge´nome et Environnement, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unite´ Mixte de Recherche 6023, Universite´ Blaise Pascal, Aubie`re, France, 4. Universite´ Paul Sabatier, Laboratoire E´ cologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Toulouse, France, 5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unite´ Mixte de Recherche 5245, Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Toulouse, France, 6. Centre de coope´ration internationale en recherche agronomique pour le de´veloppement, Unite´ Mixte de Recherche 93, Ecologie des Foreˆts de Guyane, Campus Agronomique, Kourou, France, 7. Ecologie des Foreˆts de Guyane, Campus agronomique, Kourou, France *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: He´naut Y, Corbara B, Pe´lozuelo L, Aze´mar F, Ce´re´ghino R, et al. (2014) A Tank Tank bromeliads are good models for understanding how climate change may Bromeliad Favors Spider Presence in a Neotropical Inundated Forest. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114592. affect biotic associations. We studied the relationships between spiders, the doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114592 epiphytic tank bromeliad, Aechmea bracteata, and its associated ants in an Editor: Ulrike G. Munderloh, University of Minnesota, United States of America inundated forest in Quintana Roo, Mexico, during a drought period while, exceptionally, this forest was dry and then during the flooding that followed.