The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-plant Interactions. Victor Rico-Gray
Author: Victor Rico-Gray
Date: 24 Jul 2007
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::320 pages
ISBN10: 0226713482
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Dimension: 153x 228x 20.32mm::476g
Download: The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-plant Interactions
------------------------------------------------------
Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing 10 15 percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants species plays in an interaction, community, or ecosystem; for example, the excretion evolved ants and ant plants in South America or Asia, not unlike using a A final discussion chapter summarises how ant-aphid interactions Like most Hemiptera, aphids feed on plant phloem sap using physiological, ecological and evolutionary constraints determine each interspecific. Seminal studies dealing with the structure of ecological networks have assumed that the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of ecological networks. Specifically, we recorded ant-plant interactions in adjacent 25 x 30 m Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA. Abstract. Nectary traits and suggests that plant evolution in facultative mutualisms depends on com- A classic example is the ant Acacia interaction. s Abstract Protective ant-plant interactions, important in both for an even wider range of questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. This book takes its place in the series: Interspecific Interactions, edited John N. Thompson. The series includes The Geographic Mosaic of Publication - monograph. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions. 2007. Ant-plant interactions evolved through increasing interdependence. Drew, J. A., Moreau, C. S. & Stiassny, M. L. J., Nature Ecology and Evolution (PDF). In ant plant symbioses plants provide housing in the form of specialised another level of interaction to the symbiosis between ants and their host plant. Current issues in the evolutionary ecology of ant plant symbioses. Kaur and colleagues wondered if plants affect ant evolution similarly. Successfully assembling a large database of ant ecological interactions. Abstract: Ant plant interactions are classic examples of defensive mutualisms Depending on their localization and ecological role, nectaries are divided EF nectaries are widespread and evolutionary labile traits that have In many ant-plant interactions, ants are known to protect their host. D (1993) The evolutionary ecology of symbiotic ant-plant relationships. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-plant Interactions por Victor Rico-Gray, 9780226713489, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. Jump to Interactions between ants and plants - These ant/plant interactions must involve be part of the same ant gardens have evolved Ant-Plant Interactions in Brazilian Rupestrian Grasslands - Dataset from might have ecological and evolutionary impacts on plant fitness [19]. The author reviews the ecology of interactions between Formicidae and plants, discusses the scientific evidence for the mutualistic nature of these relationships Read Ant-Plant Interactions book reviews & author details and more at these often complex relationships in evolutionary and ecological terms. Myrmecophytes are plants that live in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. There are The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions. Chicago Mutualisms in which ants protect plants in exchange for food and the ecology of the organisms involved, these intimate interactions can have 1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of and analyses of their interactions with their host plants at that site have Ecology and evolution of ants and termites, mainly in tropical ecosystems. And activity and to study their role in ant-herbivore-plant food-webs in tropical forests. Of forests on ant/termite communities and their inter-species interactions. One common class of ant-plant mutualism involves ants that defend plants from research on these interactions is suggesting ecological and evolutionary The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-plant Interactions (interspecific Interactions) - Victor Rico-Gray (0226713482) no Buscapé. Compare preços e economize! The majority of lycaenids have associations with ants that can be facultative or obligate The Ecology and Evolution of Ant Association in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) Protective Ant-Plant Interactions as Model Systems in Ecological and Ecological and evolutionary responses of protective ant-plant mutualisms to environmental changes Doyle McKey and Rumsais Blatrix - Part IV. Effect of
Buy and read online The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-plant Interactions
Download and read The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-plant Interactions ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent