COMPETITION FOR COMPOSITION: LESSONS FROM NECTAR-FEEDING ANT COMMUNITIES

By N. Blüthgen, K. Fiedler. 2004

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• Floral diversity and the facilitation of pollination (2006, background): “…and is not likely to be relevant to pollinators that collect only pollen or only nectar (although nectar composition varies among species and may be the basis for pollinator discrimination: Galetto & Bernardello 2003; Pacini et al. 2003; Bluthgen & Fiedler 2004; Mevi-Schutz & Erhardt 2005).”
• Extrafloral nectary-mediated ant-plant interactions in the coastal vegetation of Veracruz, Mexico: Richness, occurrence, seasonality, and ant foraging patterns1 (2004, methodology): “Data of this type must also combine data on EF nectar investment by plants through nectary traits (Blüthgen & Fiedler, 2004; Rudgers & Gardener, 2004) - an aspect we are currently working on - in order to complete the guideline map of opportunities for mutualism in the plant communities of coastal…”
• Liquid-feeding performances of ants (Formicidae): ecological and evolutionary implications (2004, background): “did not improve when we either boosted sucrose concentrations or supplemented sucrose solutions with low-to-high concentrations of the trisaccharide melezitose, a common component of hemipteran honeydew (e.g., Bluthgen and Fiedler 2003, and references therein) and a potentially important osmotic r”
• Sugar and amino acid composition of ant‐attended nectar and honeydew sources from an Australian rainforest (2004, background): “Nectar sources showed a high variability in concentration and composition (Table 1). A more detailed table for those sources attended by ants will be provided elsewhere ( Bluthgen & Fiedler 2004a; see Digital Appendix therein).”
• Bottom‐up control and co‐occurrence in complex communities: honeydew and nectar determine a rainforest ant mosaic (2004, background): “However, the large overlap in nectar harvested by trophobiotic and non-trophobiotic ants, plus their numerical and behavioural dominance on nectaries, supports the view that competitive exclusion is at act (Blüthgen and Fiedler 2004a).”
• Differences among ant species in plant protection are related to production of extrafloral nectar and degree of leaf herbivory (2017, background): “…plants are particularly diffuse mutualisms because nectar is easily collected by almost all tree-dwelling ant species (Law & Koptur, 1986; Blüthgen & Fiedler, 2004; Blüthgen, Stork & Fiedler, 2004), although some species possess specific adaptations such as differentiation in the…”
• Aphid–ant mutualism: how honeydew sugars influence the behaviour of ant scouts (2010, background): “Indeed, in the field, ant–nectar interactions are usually more opportunistic and different ant species regularly share the same sources (Bluthgen et al., 2000; Bluthgen & Fiedler, 2004).”
• The arboreal ant community visiting extrafloral nectaries in the Neotropical cerrado savanna (2010, background): “Th ere is also evidence that the nectar produced in the dry season is more concentrated than in the wet season due to the low water availability in the soil, which increases sugar and amino acid contents in the nectar (Blüthgen and Fiedler, 2004 ) and makes the plant more attractive to ant foragers.”