Regards sur la myrmécophilie en Guyane française. Les dispositifs d'absorption de<i>Maieta guianensis</i>et la triple association<i>Philoclendron</i>-fourmis-Aleurodes

Belin-Depoux, Monique; Bastien, D.

doi:10.1080/12538078.2002.10515964

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“…In an increasing number of 'protection mutualisms', ants appear also to confer nutritional benefits on plants (e.g. Sagers et al 2000;Alvarez et al 2001;Belin-Depoux & Bastien 2002), just as in many ant-epiphyte 'nutritional mutualisms'. Are adaptations to enhance such flows most widespread in forest-understorey ant-plants, as Janzen (1974) long ago suggested?…”

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The trophic structure of tropical ant–plant–herbivore interactions: community consequences and coevolutionary dynamics

McKey¹,

Gaume²,

Brouat³

et al. 2005

Biotic Interactions in the Tropics

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The trophic structure of tropical ant–plant–herbivore interactions: community consequences and coevolutionary dynamics

McKey¹,

Gaume²,

Brouat³

et al. 2005

Biotic Interactions in the Tropics

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Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts: The Incidence and Importance of Biological Interactions to Plant Nutrition

Sagers¹

2011

Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants

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Protective Ant-Plant Interactions as Model Systems in Ecological and Evolutionary Research

Heil

McKey

2003

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.

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Protective ant-plant interactions, important in both temperate and tropical communities, are increasingly used to study a wide range of phenomena of general interest. As antiherbivore defenses "worn on the outside," they pose fewer barriers to experimentation than do direct (e.g., chemical) plant defenses. This makes them tractable models to study resource allocation to defense and mechanisms regulating it. As multi-trophic level interactions varying in species specificity and impact on fitness of participants, ant-plant-herbivore associations figure prominently in studies of food-web structure and functioning. As horizontally transmitted mutualisms that are vulnerable to parasites and "cheaters," ant-plant symbioses are studied to probe the evolutionary dynamics of interspecies interactions. These symbioses, products of coevolution between plants and insect societies, offer rich material for studying ant social evolution in novel contexts, in settings where colony limits, resource supply, and nest-site availability are all more easily quantifiable than in the ground-nesting ants hitherto used as models. PROTECTIVE ANT-PLANT MUTUALISMS 427 Other plants lack obvious ant-specialized traits but frequently harbor ant-tended hemipteran trophobionts. Recent reviews of ant-hemipteran interactions are provided by Delabie (2001), Gullan (1997), and Gullan & Kosztarab (1997). Most ant-tended hemipterans are phloem-feeders and excrete excess liquid as sugarrich honeydew. An important resource for ants, honeydew-producing hemipterans are often monopolized by territorial, ecologically dominant ants (Blüthgen et al. 2000). These generalist predators can strongly reduce densities of phytophagous insects.

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Regards sur la myrmécophilie en Guyane française. Les dispositifs d'absorption deMaieta guianensiset la triple associationPhiloclendron-fourmis-Aleurodes

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

The trophic structure of tropical ant–plant–herbivore interactions: community consequences and coevolutionary dynamics

The trophic structure of tropical ant–plant–herbivore interactions: community consequences and coevolutionary dynamics

Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts: The Incidence and Importance of Biological Interactions to Plant Nutrition

Protective Ant-Plant Interactions as Model Systems in Ecological and Evolutionary Research

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