ANT BODY SIZE PREDICTS DISPERSAL DISTANCE OF ANT‐ADAPTED SEEDS: IMPLICATIONS OF SMALL‐ANT INVASIONS

By J. Ness, J. Bronstein, A. Andersen, J. N. Holland. 2004

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. I. Giladi
3. A. Christianini
4. W. E. Snyder
5. P. Oliveira
6. D. O'dowd
7. A. Moles
8. T. Auld

In Genetics

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2. A. Christianini
3. W. E. Snyder
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5. P. Oliveira
6. D. O'dowd
7. J. Ness
8. A. D. Rowles

In Insect Science

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2. I. Giladi
3. E. Evans
4. A. Christianini
5. D. O'dowd
6. A. Moles
7. P. Oliveira
8. J. Ness

Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Invasive Ants on Prospective Ant Mutualists (2004, background): “Invasive ants are typically smaller than their native congeners and the species they competitively exclude (McGlynn 1999; Holway et al. 2002), as well as other seed collecting ants (Horvitz and Schemske 1986; Carney et al. 2003; Ness et al. 2004).”
• Interference competition by Argentine ants displaces native ants: implications for biotic resistance to invasion (2006, background): “Behavioural dominance via aggression combined with extremely high abundance provide the basis for ‘ecological dominance’ (Davidson 1998) which generates an interference ability that transcends the small body size of L. humile relative to many native ant species (Ness et al. 2004).”
• Choosing benefits or partners: a review of the evidence for the evolution of myrmecochory (2006, background): “Ant body size is positively correlated with dispersal distance (Gomez and Espadaler 1998a, Ness et al. 2004), and larger ants are likely to carry larger seeds with larger elaiosomes (Beattie et al. 1979, Davidson and Morton 1981, Gorb and Gorb 1999).”
• Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass (2011, methodology): “Papers with seed dispersal distance data from published sources (Willson 1993; Hughes et al. 1994; Cain, Damman & Muir 1998; Gomez & Espadaler 1998; Bullock & Clarke 2000; Ness et al. 2004; Vittoz & Engler 2007) were used to gather additional peer-reviewed articles.”
• The role of ants in the removal of non-myrmecochorous diaspores and seed germination in a neotropical savanna (2007, background): “The distances of displacement of diaspores found in this study (mean for all events 5.04 m) were larger than the mean 0.96 m global estimate of myrmecochorous dispersal distances (Gómez & Espadaler 1998), and larger than most distances recorded in other studies on seed dispersal by ants in the Neot”
• Birds and ants provide complementary seed dispersal in a neotropical savanna (2010, unknown): “Indeed, the distance of diaspore dispersal by ants is correlated with ant body size (Ness et al. 2004), and records of seed removal up to Complementary dispersal by birds and ants 579”
• Ecological Effects of Invasive Arthropod Generalist Predators (2006, background): “Similarly, because invasive ants are generally smaller than the native ants they replace, and thus are relatively poor seed dispersers, ant invasions can speed replacement of native by invasive plant species, when native plants depend upon ant-mediated seed dispersal (Ness et al. 2004).”