Ant-Plant Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ant-Plant Interactions write by Paulo S. Oliveira. This book was released on 2017-08-17. Ant-Plant Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first volume devoted to anthropogenic effects on interactions between ants and flowering plants, considered major parts of terrestrial ecosystems.
The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions
The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions write by Victor Rico-Gray. This book was released on 2008-09-15. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions—such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory—that have helped to shape their great diversity. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions brings together findings from the scientific literature on the coevolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two remarkable groups, of interspecific interactions in general, and ultimately of terrestrial biological communities. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions synthesizes the dynamics of ant-plant interactions, including the sources of variation in their outcomes. Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira capture both the emerging appreciation of the importance of these interactions within ecosystems and the developing approaches that place studies of these interactions into a broader ecological and evolutionary context. The collaboration of two internationally renowned scientists, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions will become a standard reference for understanding the complex interactions between these two taxa.
The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms
The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms write by Andrew James Beattie. This book was released on 1985-11-29. The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important work explores the natural history, experimental approach, and integration of evolutionary and ecological literature of ant-plant mutualisms.
Ant-plant Interactions
Ant-plant Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ant-plant Interactions write by Camilla R. Huxley. This book was released on 1991. Ant-plant Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents current research on all types of ant-plant interactions, and concentrates on understanding these often complex relationships in evolutionary and ecological terms. The range of interactions varies from herbivory (leaf-cutter ants) to complex symbiosis. Many ants prey on plant pests, thus protecting the plant from harm, receiving in exchange nectar and/or nest sites. In some cases the ants tend and protect other insects such as butterfly larvae or Homopterans (which include the aphids and cicadas) which may benefit the ants at the expense of both the host plant and the other insects. Some ants are known to be seed dispersers, and in at least one plant (cocoa) they appear to affect rates of pollination. A significant proportion of these interactions exhibit a high degree of mutualism, making this book part of a growing literature on the ecological determinants of mutualistic behaviour. The thirty-seven chapters by more than fifty contributors range in geographical coverage from northern and southern temperate zones, to the New World tropics, to Australia and South-east Asia. The emphasis throughout, even in the more descriptive chapters, is on possible explanations for observed phenomena. Workers in ecology, evolution, and behavior will welcome this compendium of information on a subject that has become a modern testing ground for evolutionary ecology.
Ant-plant interactions in Australia
Ant-plant interactions in Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ant-plant interactions in Australia write by R.P. Buckley. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Ant-plant interactions in Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early research on ant-plant interactions in Australia was largely confined to the economically important problem of ants harvesting surface-sown pasture seed (e. g. Campbell 1966). The report by Berg (1975) of widespread myrmecochory in Australia, and a burst of overseas research, stimulated research on a range of ant-plant interactions in Australia. This book summarizes such research and presents reeent and current work on seed harvesting, myrmecochory, ant-epiphytes, extrafloral nectaries, ant-plant-homopteran systems, and the influence of vegetation on ant faunas. I hope that it will encourage further work in these and related areas, and that the review and bibliography of ant-plant interactions in the rest ofthe world will serve as a useful source for those entering the field. The richness of Australia's flora and ant fauna render it a particularly interesting continent for the study of interactions between them. As immediately apparent from the list of contents, ant-seed interactions are particularly significant in Australia. This is not surprising for a relatively dry continent bearing a largely sc1erophyllous plant cover. Future research, however, especially in the tropical north, is like1y to reveal further types of interaction, perhaps corresponding to those characteristic of the tropics elsewhere, or perhaps distinctively Australian. Some of the chapters have been shortened and modified considerably from the original manuscripts, but the ideas and results presented are, of course, those of the individual authors.
