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Ant-plant interactions

Camilla R Huxley; Camilla R Huxley; D. F Cutler (David Frederick) 1939-; Linnean Society of London; University of Oxford Department of Zoology; University of Oxford. Department of Plant Sciences

Oxford Oxford University Press 1991

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QH549.5 A627 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Ant-plant interactions
  • Autor: Camilla R Huxley; Camilla R Huxley; D. F Cutler (David Frederick) 1939-; Linnean Society of London; University of Oxford Department of Zoology; University of Oxford. Department of Plant Sciences
  • Assuntos: Ants -- Ecology -- Congresses; Ants -- Evolution -- Congresses; Relations insecte-plante -- Congrès; FORMIGAS -- CONGRESSOS; INTERAÇÃO PLANTA-INSETO -- CONGRESSOS; Oxford (1989)
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • Descrição: Ants and plants : a diversity of interactions / Camilla R. Huxley -- An introduction to the fungus-growing ants, Attini / D.J. Stradling -- The selection and detoxification of plant material by fungus-growing ants / R.J. Powell and D.J. Stradling -- Resource quality and cost in the foraging of leaf-cutter ants / Jerome J. Howard -- Leaf-cutter ant assemblies : effects of latitude, vegetation, and behaviour / H.G. Fowler and Silvia Claver -- Effects of ants on temperate woodland trees / J.B. Whittaker -- The interaction between red wood ants, Cinara aphids, and pines. A ghost of mutualism past? / Rainer Rosengren and Liselotte Sundström -- Conditional interactions in ant-plant-herbivore mutualisms / J. Hall Cushman and John F. Addicott -- Why are so few aphids ant-tended? / Catherine M. Bristow -- Effects of ant-homopteran systems on fig-figwasp interactions / S.G. Compton and H.G. Robertson -- Variation in the attractiveness of lycaenid butterfly larvae to ants / N.E. Pierce ... [et al.] -- Evolutionary and ecological patterns in myrmecophilous riodinid butterflies / P.J. DeVries -- Phylogeny, lifeform, and habitat dependence of ant-defended plants in a Panamanian forest / Eugene W. Schupp and D.H. Feener, Jr. -- The ant community associated with extrafloral nectaries in the Brazilian cerrados / Paulo S. Oliveira and Carlos R.F. Brandão -- Extrafloral nectaries of herbs and trees : modelling the interaction with ants and parasitoids / Suzanne Koptur -- Bracken and ants : why is there no mutualism? / V.K. Roshbrook, S.G. Compton and J.H. Lawton -- Some associations between ants and euphorbs in tropical Australasia / D.A. Mackay and M.A. Whalen -- The association between Macaranga trees and ants in South-east Asia / Brigitte Fiala, Ulrich Maschwitz and Tho Yow Pong --
    Azteca ants in Cecropia trees : taxonomy, colony structure, and behaviour / John T. Longino -- Symbiosis of ants with Cecropia as a function of light regime / Diane W. Davidson and Brian L. Fisher -- Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of a mutualism : Leonardoxa (Caesalpiniaceae) and its associated ants / Doyle McKey -- Phylogenetic analysis of pseudomyrmecine ants associated with domatia-bearing plants / Philip S. Ward -- Myrmecotrophy : origins, operation, and importance / David H. Benzing -- Cavity structure and function in the tuberous epiphytic Rubiaceae / Matthew Jebb -- Parasitism of ant-plant mutualisms and the novel case of Piper / D.K. Letourneau -- Ants, plants, and beetles : a triangular relationship / Pierre Jolivet -- The evidence for, and importance of, ant pollination / Rod Peakall, Steven N. Handel and Andrew J. Beattie -- The greasy pole syndrome / Ray Harley -- Seed dispersal by ants : comparing infertile with fertile soils / M. Westoby, L. Hughes and B.L. Rice -- Myrmecochory in Cape fynbos / W.J. Bond, R. Yeaton and W.D. Stock -- Light environments, stage structure, and dispersal syndromes of Costa Rican Marantaceae / Carol C. Horvitz -- Ground beetles and seed dispersal of the myrmecochorous plant Trillium tschonoskii (Trilliaceae) / Seigo Higashi and Fuminori lto -- Seed harvesting by ants in Australia / Alan N. Andersen -- The influence of mound-building ants on British lowland vegetation / Stanley R.J. Woodell and Timothy J. King -- A neotropical, rainforest canopy, ant community : some ecological considerations / John E. Tobin -- Parallels between ants and plants : implications for community ecology / Alan N. Andersen -- Problems outstanding in ant-plant interaction research / Andrew J. Beattie.
  • Editor: Oxford Oxford University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1991
  • Formato: xviii, 601 p il. 25 cm..
  • Idioma: Inglês

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