Bottom‐up control and co‐occurrence in complex communities: honeydew and nectar determine a rainforest ant mosaic

By N. Blüthgen, Nigel E. Stork, K. Fiedler. 2004

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

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Interference and exploitation competition of three nectar-thieving invasive ant species (2005, background): “Ant dominance may derive from the ability to access, consume, and recruit to resources such as homopteran honeydew, and floral or extrafloral nectar both because they represent a defendable and relatively predictable resource and they provide energy to fuel a large dynamic, high-tempo work force (Da”
Differences among ant species in plant protection are related to production of extrafloral nectar and degree of leaf herbivory (2017, background): “In ant–plant networks, those species are © 2017 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017, 122, 71–83 generalist partners and perform facultative and weak interactions (Blüthgen et al., 2004; Belchior et al., 2016; Fagundes et al., 2016).”
Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness (2011, background): “Plant nectar and hemipteran honeydew have a key role structuring ant communities in the rainforest, with dominant species avoiding the use of same plants, but co-occurring with non-dominant ant species (Blüthgen et al. 2004b).”
Argentine ants displace floral arthropods in a biodiversity hotspot (2007, background): “In other systems, EFNs have been found to have significant influence over ant assemblages (Blüthgen et al., 2004; Rudgers & Gardener, 2004) and the EFN-attracted ants may in turn affect plant-associated arthropods (Mody & Linsenmair, 2004; Altfeld & Stiling, 2006).”
Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales1 (2010, background): “…secretes large amounts of nectar, with high concentrations of sugar and amino acids, from extrafloral nectaries and attracts large numbers of ants (Blüthgen et al., 2004a, b; Blüthgen & Fiedler, 2004); the ants observed to visit the flowers (Newell, 1969) almost surely are attracted by these…”
Interaction between flowers, ants and pollinators: additional evidence for floral repellence against ants (2007, background): “Nectar from two Australian plants was clearly repellent to ants, while ants often consumed flower nectar on several other species (Blüthgen et al. 2004a).”
Nectar- and pollen-gathering Cephalotes ants provide no protection against herbivory: a new manipulative experiment to test ant protective capabilities (2010, background): “Co-occurrence, diversity and specialisation are common processes in ant–plant associations, with great impact in the whole community due its vertical and horizontal effects in the trophic chans (Davidson and McKey 1993; Bluthgen et al. 2004; Miller 2007).”
An Ant Mosaic Revisited: Dominant Ant Species Disassemble Arboreal Ant Communities but Co‐Occur Randomly (2007, background): “Blüthgen et al. (2004) make the more specific suggestion that trophobionts should show evidence of nonrandom co-occurrence more so than other trophic guilds.”
Sugar and amino acid composition of ant‐attended nectar and honeydew sources from an Australian rainforest (2004, methodology): “smaragdina (Blüthgen & Fiedler 2002; Blüthgen et al. 2004).”
Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies (2016, background): “Given the high abundance and diversity of ants and myrmecophilous insects (Blüthgen et al. 2000, 2004), further detailed studies might shed light on the costs and benefits to plants in supporting ants and their distinct myrmecophilous partners (e.g. Del-Claro and TorezanSilingardi 2009).”
Rainforest Canopy Ants: The Implications of Territoriality and Predatory Behavior (2007, background): “…nests that permit the colonies to easily access permanent food sources (Hölldobler and Wilson 1990a), especially (3) the sugar-rich honeydew of hemipterans needed to fuel energy-costly territoriality (Blüthgen et al. 2000, 2004; Dejean et al. 2000; Davidson et al. 2003, 2004; Davidson 2005b).”
Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem (2014, background): “…& Weiser 2000, Albrecht & Gotelli 2001, Ribas et al. 2003), temperature or moisture conditions (Perfecto & Vandermeer 1996, Kaspari & Weiser 2000), changes in nest availability (Armbrecht et al. 2004), and changes in food availability and distribution (Kaspari et al. 2000, Blüthgen et al. 2004).”