Arcila Hernández, L.M., Sanders, J.G., Miller, G.A., Ravenscraft, A., and Frederickson, M. Ant-plant mutualism: a dietary by-product of a tropical ant’s macronutrient requirements. Ecology. 2017. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Authors Lina M. Arcila Hernández Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B2, Canada Current address: Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, New York, 14850, USA linaarcila@gmail.com Jon G. Sanders Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA jonsan@gmail.com Gabriel A. Miller Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA Current address: San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, 15600 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027, USA gabemiller@gmail.com Alison Ravenscraft Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA Current address: Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA aravenscraft@gmail.com Megan E. Frederickson Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B2, Canada m.frederickson@utoronto.ca _________________________________________________________________________________________ File list 2017_ArcilaHernandezetal_wildcolonies_Dryad.csv Description 2017_ArcilaHernandezetal_wildcolonies_Dryad is a csv file with count and weight data of worker and reproductive ants in wild colonies _________________________________________________________________________________________ Columns Description ID Colony reference number for colonies was not in the experiment Worker mass (mean, in mg) Mean worker mass of 20 ants per colony Colony Size Number of ants per colony at the end of the experiment Total reproductives Total number of reproductive pupae and adults present in the colony (only for wild colonies)