Foraging by predatory ants: A review. [PDF]
Insect SciThis review focuses on ecological and behavioral characteristics of foraging in ants showing the wide diversity of cases. Most ants can feed on sugary substances, but some ground‐nesting species are strict predators. Except army ants during the nomadic phase, they are central‐place foragers that can recruit nestmates when necessary. They prey mostly on
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Delayed recovery and host specialization may spell disaster for coral-fish mutualism. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Multiple disturbances are breaking down the mutualisms between corals and coral‐dwelling fishes. Predisturbances, coral gobies occupied a variety of coral host species, and most corals were occupied. Postdisturbances, gobies were slower to recover than their coral hosts, although the few goby species that remained had switched to newly available coral ...
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Postponing the production of ant domatia as a strategy promoting an escape from flooding in an Amazonian myrmecophyte. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2018 Izzo TJ +2 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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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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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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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 ...
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An assassin among predators: the relationship between plant-ants, their host Myrmecophytes and the Reduviidae Zelus annulosus. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2010 Revel M +3 more
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Epiphytic ant-plant obtains nitrogen from both native and invasive ant inhabitants [PDF]
, 2022 Ant-plants have been extensively used as model systems in the study of the evolution and ecology of mutualisms. Using a 15N isotope labeling experiment, we found that both a native ant mutualist (Philidris cordata) and an invasive ant (Pheidole ...
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