Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex spp.): Their Community and Ecosystem Influences

By J. Macmahon, John F. Mull, T. O. Crist. 2000

321 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. R. Wrangham
2. I. Gilby
3. John L. Orrock
4. Margaret C. Crofoot
5. Deborah M. Gordon
6. D. Levey
7. B. Danielson
8. T. O. Crist

In Genetics

1. I. Gilby
2. Deborah M. Gordon
3. D. Levey
4. R. Wrangham

Citations in the corpus

• Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change. (2007, unknown): “…receive sufficient outcrossed pollen (Nason & Hamrick 1997; White et al. 2002), a recent meta-analysis found a significantly negative effect of habitat fragmentation on pollination of both self-incompatible and self-compatible plants, and a strong correlation of this effect with reproductive success.”
• SPATIAL ECOLOGY OF PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS: CORRIDORS AND PATCH SHAPE INFLUENCE SEED PREDATION (2003, background): “The occurrence and abundance of carabid beetles and harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex spp.) also respond to changes in temperature, edge, and core area (Didham et al. 1998, Crist and Ahern 1999, MacMahon et al. 2000, Davies et al. 2001).”
• Soil invertebrates as ecosystem engineers: Intended and accidental effects on soil and feedback loops (2006, background): “As the diversity and biomass of harvester ants are suggested to be food limited (MacMahon et al., 2000), this too may have a positive feedback on the colonies fitness.”
• The impact of ants on mineral soil properties and processes at different spatial scales (2008, background): “Furthermore, water infiltration is also related to the extension of the vertical galleries and tunnels and the size of the nests (MacMahon et al. 2000), factors that likely are nest age and ant species dependent.”
• Use of overlap zones among group-living primates: a test of the risk hypothesis (2007, background): “Overlap zones might, therefore, be under-used because they are areas of resource scarcity (e.g., harvester ants Pogonomyrmex spp., Macmahon et al., 2000 ).”
• Development of harvester ant colonies alters soil chemistry (2004, background): “The soils near ant nests often contain higher concentrations of organic matter and mineral forms of nitrogen and phosphorus than soils collected off the nest mound (reviewed by Petal, 1978; Beattie, 1985; Folgarait, 1998; MacMahon et al., 2000).”
• The spread of invasive species and infectious disease as drivers of ecosystem change (2008, background): “Invasive ants alter ecosystem processes by displacing native ant species that construct deep, long-lived nests, rich in organic matter (MacMahon et al. 2000).”