The ecology and evolution of ant-plant interactions

By V. Rico‐Gray, P. Oliveira. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Plant Science

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Rainforest Canopy Ants: The Implications of Territoriality and Predatory Behavior (2007, background): “Yet, this adaptation to live in nutrient-poor environments has also been noted for several geophytic myrmecophytes (Rico-Gray and Oliveira 2007).”
Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority (2015, background): “…traits related to seed dispersal by ants are expected to evolve in these ecosystems, as directed seed dispersal by ants includes advantages such as transport to nutrientenriched areas around their nests and seed burial, which promotes escape form superficial fires (Rico-Gray and Oliveira 2007).”
REVIEW: Ants as tools in sustainable agriculture (2015, background): “Weaver ants provide the most well-documented example of ant-based agricultural pest management; however, their positive attributes are not unique and a multitude of other ant species are likely to show similar effectivity in crop protection (Rico-Gray & Oliveira 2007).”
Nectar- and pollen-gathering Cephalotes ants provide no protection against herbivory: a new manipulative experiment to test ant protective capabilities (2010, background): “Variation in the effects of EFN-gathering ants on plants has been reported for various ant–plant systems (Bronstein 1998; Rico-Gray and Oliveira 2007; Del-Claro and Torezan-Silingardi 2009, and references therein).”
Conditional outcomes in ant–plant–herbivore interactions influenced by sequential flowering (2014, background): “understanding of tropical communities (Rico-Gray and Oliveira, 2007; Rosumek et al., 2009), and these interactions are particularly pervasive in the Cerrado (the Brazilian tropical savanna) due to the high incidence of insect- and plant-derived exudates on foliage, which promotes intense ant activit”
How common are invasion-induced ecosystem impacts? (2011, background): “As one example, ants are often key seeddispersers for dominant plants (Rico-Gray and Oliveira 2007), and ant introductions can disrupt these, possibly to the ultimate detriment of much of the original community.”
Emergent Impacts of Ant and Spider Interactions: Herbivory Reduction in a Tropical Savanna Tree (2012, background): “Experimental ant-exclusion studies have shown that the absence of ants increases leaf area loss in plants possessing EFNs (Kelly 1986, Costa et al. 1992, Oliveira 1997, Korndörfer & DelClaro 2006), reduces fruit (Oliveira et al. 1999, Nascimento & Del-Claro 2010) and seed production (Vesprini et al.”
The arboreal ant community visiting extrafloral nectaries in the Neotropical cerrado savanna (2010, background): “Although ant species have been found to occur in a mosaic spatial distribution in many habitats (reviewed by Rico-Gray and Oliveira, 2007 ), this pattern was not found to apply to cerrado arboreal ants (Ribas and Schoereder, 2004 ).”
Floral volatiles play a key role in specialized ant pollination (2014, background): “Interactions between ants and flowers have traditionally been interpreted as antagonistic, but 10 the outcome of that association can shift from negative to positive depending on the species involved and community context (Rico-Gray and Oliveira, 2007).”
Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness (2011, background): “Nevertheless, studies that show benefits from ants to plants possessing EFNs are predominant in the literature (Rico-Gray and Oliveira 2007; Rosumek et al. 2009), but the complementary question of whether and how ants benefit from EFNs, such as in parasitic and mutualistic relationships, is rarely…”