Filters: Collection: "ir_uspace" Subject: "Ants"
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Davidson, Diane W. | Experimental studies of species-specificity in cecropia-ant relationships | Strict coevolution requires that interactions among organisms be speciesspecific. We assessed the relative roles of host- and habitat-specificity in determining the match between a genus of myrmecophytic trees and a guild of obligate plant-ants in the moist tropical forests of Madre de Dios, Peru. F... | Ant-plant; Ants; Cecropia; Coevolution; Colonization; Coordinated dispersal; Ecological fitting; Habitat-specificity; Host-specificity; Mutualism; Parasitoid wasps; Preadaptation | 1997 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Experimental study of diffuse competition in harvester ants | Experiments carried out over a 5-yr period in the Chihuahuan Desert support the a priori prediction of diffuse competition between two species of harvester ants. Despite dietary overlap between a large species {Pogonomyrmex rugosus) and a small species (Pheidole xerophila), the large species facilit... | Chihuahuan Desert; Ants; Facilitation; Resource allocation; Granivory | 1985 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Foraging ecology and community organization in desert seed-eating ants | Granivorous ants in the southwestern deserts of the United States are characterized by species-specific colony foraging behaviors that determine their efficiencies at utilizing seeds from different density distributions. Workers search for food either in groups or as individuals, and these feedin... | Ants; Arizona; California; Coexistence; Communities; Density specialization; Desert granivores; Foraging strategies; Insects; New Mexico; Resource partitioning | 1977 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Granivory in a desert ecosystem: experimental evidence for indirect facilitation of ants by rodents | Two major groups of desert granivores, ants and rodents, coexist as permanent residents of local desert habitats in southwestern North America. At our Sonoran Desert study site, both of the major taxa exhibited short-term increase in density when the other taxon was experimentally removed. Over the... | Ants; Arizona; Desert annuals; Facilitation; Granivory; Indirect mutualism; Rodents; Seed predation; Sonoran Desert | 1984 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Pruning of host plant neighbors by ants: an experimental approach | Some ants of myrmecophytic plants either obligately or facultatively prune vegetation surrounding their host trees. Pruning behavior occurs at higher frequency in ants with sting defenses than in those with chemical defenses, which may generally convey an advantage in aggressive encounters between a... | Allelopathy; Allomerus demararae; Ant-plant interactions; Ants; Cordia nodosa; Crematogaster; Mutualism; Peru; Plant-animal interaction; Pseudomyrmex; Triplaris americana | 1988 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Size variability in the worker caste of a social insect (veromessor pergandei mayr) as a function of the competitive environment | Worker size polymorphism in colonies of Veromessor pergandei, a granivorous desert ant, is inversely related to the intensity of interspecific competition in the habitat for seven ant communities in the deserts of southern California and southern Arizona. Seed size preferences are positively corr... | Ants; Arizona; California; Coexistence; Communities; Density specialization; Desert granivores; Foraging strategies; Resource partitioning; Size | 1978 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Some consequences of diffuse competition in a desert ant community | Exploitative and interference competition are investigated in detail in a community of six coexisting species of granivorous desert ants . A linear model that includes both direct and indirect competitive interactions is used to predict positive or negative correlations in the abundances of com... | Ants; Arizona; California; Coexistence; Communities; Density specialization; Desert granivores; Resource partitioning | 1980 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Species diversity and community organization in desert seed-eating ants | Patterns of species diversity and community organization in desert seed-eating ants were studied in 10 habitats on a longitudinal gradient of increasing rainfall extending from southeastern California, through southern Arizona, and into southwestern New Mexico. Local communities of harvester ants... | Ants; Arizona; California; Communities; Competition; Desert Granivores; Diversity; Insects; New Mexico; Novomessor; Pheidole; Pogonomyrmex; Resource allocation; Veromessor. | 1977 |
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