Can floral repellents pre‐empt potential ant–plant conflicts?
By J. Ghazoul. 2001
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics
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- Interaction between flowers, ants and pollinators: additional evidence for floral repellence against ants (2007, background): “The floral tissue itself might produce chemical repellents or deterrents against ants (Haber et al. 1981; Koptur and Truong 1997; Ghazoul 2001); these substances could be volatile (Stäger 1931; van der Pijl 1955; Willmer and Stone 1997).”
- The multiple faces of indirect defences and their agents of natural selection (2011, background): “Plants can also offset the ecological costs by releasing ant-repellent odours from flowers (Ghazoul 2001), or by spatially or temporally separating ant defenders and floral pollinators (Raine, Willmer & Stone 2002; Nicklen & Wagner 2006).”
- Pollination ecology of acacias (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae) (2003, background): “Furthermore, results of experiments involving the flowers of other acacias that lack ant guards suggest that ant repellents are a general feature of acacia flowers that has been augmented in ant acacias (Ghazoul 2001; Raine et al. 2002).”
- Floral volatiles controlling ant behaviour (2009, background): “Ghazoul (2001) reported ant-repellence as extremely commonplace in tropical flowers, by recording ant positions in Petri dishes where one half had been 'wiped' with flowers and showing that ants avoided the wiped area.”
- Preferences for sugars and amino acids and their conditionality in a diverse nectar‐feeding ant community (2004, background): “Ants are the most common animals consuming extrafloral nectars and honeydew (Buckley 1987; Koptur 1992) and they may be common on some flowers, although conspicuously absent on others (Janzen 1977), sometimes as a consequence of repellent substances in nectar or floral tissue (Ghazoul 2001).”
- Interference and exploitation competition of three nectar-thieving invasive ant species (2005, background): “However, little is known of their attraction to floral nectar (but see Koptur and Truong, 1998), which may contain chemical deterrents to ants ( Ghazoul 2001 ).”
- When leaves act like flowers: how dwarf palms attract their pollinators (2003, background): “Our results suggest the utility of treating plants as integrated organisms, testing for functional crossover between their vegetative and reproductive domains (Janzen 1984; Armbruster 1997; Ghazoul 2001; Armbruster 2002) and predicting the conditions when such crossover is expected to occur.”
- A mutualism's indirect costs: the most aggressive plant bodyguards also deter pollinators (2006, methodology): “Plants can exclude ants from flowers by several means, including slippery stalks (Harley 1991), modified flower architecture (Galen 1999), distasteful petals (Guerrant and Fiedler 1981), and volatile ant-repellent compounds (Galen 1983, Willmer and Stone 1997, Ghazoul 2001, Raine et al. 2002).”
- Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research. (2003, result): “Similar observations were recently made for the Central AmericanA. hindsii(Raine et al. 2002) and might be a general phenomenon because plant-ants inhabiting myrmecophyticAcaciaplants were even repelled by flowers of several non-myrmecophytes (Ghazoul 2001).”
- Sugar and amino acid composition of ant‐attended nectar and honeydew sources from an Australian rainforest (2004, background): “It seems likely that ants are repelled from consumption by other (unknown) substances in these nectars and/or by chemical or mechanical barriers on floral structures (see Willmer & Stone 1997; Adler 2000; Ghazoul 2001).”