Ants defend coffee from berry borer colonization

By D. Gonthier, Katherine K. Ennis, S. Philpott, J. Vandermeer, I. Perfecto. BioControl (Dordrecht), 2013

86 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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How researchers see this paper

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Offenberg
2. S. Philpott
3. I. Perfecto
4. J. Vandermeer
5. Taylor H. Ricketts
6. A. Martínez-Salinas
7. Adina Chain-Guadarrama
8. Natalia Aristizábal

In Genetics

1. J. Offenberg
2. S. Philpott
3. J. Vandermeer
4. I. Perfecto
5. Taylor H. Ricketts
6. I. Armbrecht
7. J. Bronstein

In Insect Science

1. S. Philpott
2. J. Vandermeer
3. I. Perfecto
4. Taylor H. Ricketts
5. J. Offenberg
6. A. Martínez-Salinas
7. T. Tscharntke
8. I. Steffan‐Dewenter

Citations in the corpus

• Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem (2014, background): “…predators of coffee pests, effectively representing a trophic chain from coffee to herbivorous pest to predator of that pest (Barrera et al. 1990, Damon 2000, Jaramillo et al. 2006, De la Mora et al. 2008, Vega et al. 2009, Larsen & Philpott 2010, Gonthier et al. 2013, Classen et al. 2014).”
• Ecosystem services by birds and bees to coffee in a changing climate: A review of coffee berry borer control and pollination (2019, background): “For example, there is growing evidence that different species of ground-andcoffee foraging ants contribute to CBB control (Philpott and Armbrecht, 2006; Armbrecht and Gallego, 2007; Larsen and Philpott, 2010; Gonthier et al., 2013; De la Mora et al., 2015; Morris and Perfecto, 2016; Morris et al., 2”
• REVIEW: Ants as tools in sustainable agriculture (2015, background): “Further, Gonthier et al. (2013) showed that six out of eight tested ant species were able to reduce coffee berry borer damage.”