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Long-term strict ant-plant mutualism identity characterises growth rate and leaf shearing resistance of an Amazonian myrmecophyte [PDF]
Scientific ReportsOver 125 million years of ant-plant interactions have culminated in one of the most intriguing evolutionary outcomes in life history. The myrmecophyte Duroia hirsuta (Rubiaceae) is known for its mutualistic association with the ant Myrmelachista ...
Rafael E. Cárdenas +9 more
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Chronic anthropogenic disturbance mediates the bottom-up influence of plant diversity on arthropods in tropical forests. [PDF]
Ecol EvolHow plant diversity influences arthropod diversity contributes to our understanding of trophic cascades and species coexistence. This relationship can be altered by disturbance. We showed that the bottom‐up effect of plant diversity on arthropod diversity and abundance can be decoupled, whereby plant diversity affects arthropod abundance without ...
Gaoue OG, Bassoki H, Dassou AG.
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Fidelity and Promiscuity in an Ant-Plant Mutualism: A Case Study of Triplaris and Pseudomyrmex. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The association between the myrmecophyte Triplaris and ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex is an often-reported example of mutualism but no molecular studies have examined this association to date.
Adriana Sanchez
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Comparative metabolomics reveals how the severity of predation by the invasive insect Cydalima perspectalis modulates the metabolism re-orchestration of native Buxus sempervirens. [PDF]
Plant Biol (Stuttg)Combining NMR– and LC–HRMS–based metabolomics reveals that root and leaf metabolic changes in boxwood predated by box–tree moth occur at the same density of predation for both central and specialized metabolisms. Abstract The recent biological invasion of box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis on Buxus trees has a major impact on European boxwood stands ...
Hay AE +12 more
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The cost of myrmecophytism: insights from allometry of stem secondary growth. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2012 Plant defence traits against herbivores incur production costs that are usually difficult to measure. However, estimating these costs is a prerequisite for characterizing the plant defence strategy as a whole. Myrmecophytes are plants that provide symbiotic ants with specialized nesting cavities, called domatia, in exchange for protection against ...
Blatrix R +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.In areas facing intense herbivory pressure, heavily defended trees like Acacia drepanolobium may serve as nurse plants, creating refugia microhabitats for the growth of vulnerable plants. Such refugia habitats promote diversity across the landscape and may also serve as recolonization nuclei for rare species.
Julius C. Karugu +3 more
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Ant-plant symbioses trade-offs and its role in forest restoration projects [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2022 Ant-plant symbioses are complex between-species interactions found only in the tropical environment. Typically, in such symbioses, plants provide housing structures and food to their ant symbionts.
Sze Huei Yek
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Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2021 Most of the ants that are associated with plants usually nests in vegetative organs such as stems, leaves o petioles. Aiming to contribute to the plant-insect interactions, we report the first record of Crematogaster carinata nesting inside the fruits of
Andrés Fonseca-Cortés +1 more
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Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2020 Hydnophytum formicarum is an epiphytic plant, commonly distributed throughout Southeast Asia. However, its distribution is currently declining due to forest fragmentation and the subsequent habitat changes which may have also consequently affected the ...
Abdul Shukor Yusoff +2 more
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EVOLUTION OF MYRMECOPHYTISM IN WESTERN MALESIAN MACARANGA (EUPHORBIACEAE) [PDF]
Evolution, 2001 Plants inhabited by ants (myrmecophytes) have evolved in a diversity of tropical plant lineages. Macaranga includes approximately 300 paleotropical tree species; in western Malesia there are 26 myrmecophytic species that vary in morphological specializations for ant association.
Davies, Stuart J. +3 more
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