The Direct and Ecological Costs of an Ant-Plant Symbiosis [PDF]
, 2012 How strong is selection for cheating in mutualisms? The answer depends on the type and magnitude of the costs of the mutualism. Here we investigated the direct and ecological costs of plant defense by ants in the association between Cordia nodosa, a ...
Booth, Gregory +5 more
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Report of new invasive scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh (Monophlebidae) and Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Pseudococcidae), on the islands of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, with an updated taxonomic key to iceryine scale insects of South America [PDF]
, 2012 The multicicatrices fluted scale, Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) is reported from the islands of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, as a recent invasive species.
Gullan, Penny +2 more
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A new Chlerogelloides from northeastern Brazil and French Guiana, with a key to the species (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). [PDF]
Zookeys, 2012 This is the publisher's version, also available electronically at http://www.pensoft.net/index.php.A third species of the rare augochlorine bee genus Chlerogelloides Engel et al. (Halictinae, Augochlorini) is described and figured. Chlerogelloides nexosa
de Oliveira FF, Engel MS, Mahlmann T.
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Some species of plant‐mutualistic ants kill the vegetation growing in the vicinities of their host plant, creating an area of bare ground (clearing). The reduced competition in the clearing may facilitate the establishment of host species sprouts (clones and seedlings), which in turn benefits the ants with additional food and shelter (“sprout ...
Sabrina Amador-Vargas, Jonathan D. Majer
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Anti‐Inflammatory Activity of Compounds Isolated from Plants
The Scientific World Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 713-784, 2001., 2001 This review shows over 300 compounds isolated and identified from plants that previously demonstrated anti‐inflammatory activity. They have been classified in appropriate chemical groups and data are reported on their pharmacological effects, mechanisms of action, and other properties.
R.M. Perez G.
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Ethnoveterinary medicines used for horses in Trinidad and in British Columbia, Canada [PDF]
, 2006 This paper investigates the commonalities in ethnoveterinary medicine used for horses between Trinidad (West Indies) and British Columbia (Canada). These research areas are part of a common market in pharmaceuticals and are both involved in the North ...
Brauer Gerhard +4 more
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Observations on flower and fruit anatomy in dioecious species of Cordia (Cordiaceae, Boraginales) with evolutionary interpretations [PDF]
, 2022 Detailed anatomical studies of flowers and fruits may render traits of phylogenetic importance, but are still rare in the Boraginales. An Old World clade of Cordia comprises many dioecious species, but the floral anatomy is largely unexplored and, hence,
Feyrer, Benedikt +4 more
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Ant–plant relationships in an Amazonian rainforest understory: A network approach
Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 4, Page 681-687, July 2025.Tropical rainforest ants are abundant at the ground and canopy levels, but the understory is frequently neglected. Thus, we looked for ants nesting in this stratum in an Amazonian rainforest. Ants nest in the debris accumulated between the fronds of the palm tree Astrocaryum sciophilum or are associated with myrmecophytes (plants that shelter ant ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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BIOCONTRACT, mutualismusok, szerződések, térbeliség és diszperzió = BIOCONTRACT, mutualisms, contracts, space, and dispersa [PDF]
, 2011 A fogolydilemma és a hótorlasz játékok viselkedését vizsgáltuk rácson. Megmutattuk, hogy a térbeliség mindkét szociális dilemma esetén segíti a kooperátorokat.
Scheuring, István
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Nesting Associations of Wasps and Ants on Lowland Peruvian Ant‐Plants
, 1986 Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 93, Issue 3-4, Page 321-330, 1986.
Edward Allen Herre +2 more
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