Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness

By Jonas Byk, K. Del‐Claro. Population Ecology, 2011

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Do ant visitors to extrafloral nectaries of plants repel pollinators and cause an indirect cost of mutualism (2014, unknown): “and reproduction (Byk and Del-Claro, 2011).”
Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies (2016, background): “As sugar sources are vital to ant nutrition and colony survivorship (Lach et al. 2009; Byk and Del-Claro 2011), it is expected that ants also forage on flowers to obtain nectar (Rico-Gray 1993; Santos et al. 2014).”
Flower-Visiting Social Wasps and Plants Interaction: Network Pattern and Environmental Complexity (2012, background): “, nectar [25, 28, 54]), more materials for nest construction (i.”
Influence of extrafloral nectary phenology on ant–plant mutualistic networks in a neotropical savanna (2013, background): “…the majority only verify the © 2013 The Royal Entomological Society 463 outcomes of the interaction for plants (leaf loss) (Davidson & McKey, 1993; Blüthgen et al., 2000; Floren et al., 2002; Byk & Del-Claro, 2010), while only a few verify the effects on ant fitness (Byk & Del-Claro, 2011).”