Ant-Plant Interactions

Preface. Ants and plants: a prominent interaction in a changing world Paulo S. Oliveira and Suzanne Koptur; Part I. Landscape Mosaics, Habitat Fragmentation and Edge Effects: 1. Ant biodiversity and functional roles in fragmented forest and grassland ecosystems of the agricultural Midwest, North America Thomas O. Crist and Kaitlin U. Campbell; 2. Diversity and specificity of ant-plant interactions in canopy communities: insights from primary and secondary tropical forests in New Guinea Petr Klimes; 3. Living together in novel habitats: a review of land-use change impacts on mutualistic ant-plant symbioses in tropical forests Tom M. Fayle, Chua Wanji, Edgar C. Turner and Kalsum M. Yusah; 4. Ecology of leaf-cutting ants in human-modified landscapes Marcelo Tabarelli, Felipe F. S. Siqueira, Julia Backe, Rainer Wirth and Inara R. Leal; Part II. Ant-Seed Interactions and Man-Induced Disturbance: 5. Global change impacts on ant-mediated seed dispersal in Eastern North American forests Robert J. Warren II, Joshua R. King, Lacy Chick and Mark A. Bradford; 6. Effects of human disturbance and climate change on myrmecochory in Brazilian Caatinga Inara R. Leal, Laura C. Leal, Fernanda M. P. de Oliveira, Gabriela B. Arcoverde and Alan N. Andersen; 7. Anthropogenic disturbances affect the interactions between ants and fleshy fruits in two neotropical biodiversity hotspots Paulo S. Oliveira, Alexander V. Christianini, Ana G. D. Bieber and Marco A. Pizo; Part III. Ant-Plant Protection Systems under Variable Habitat Conditions: 8. Plasticity and efficacy of defense strategies against herbivory in ant-visited plants growing in variable abiotic conditions Akira Yamawo; 9. Interhabitat variation in the ecology of extrafloral nectar production and associated ant assemblages in Mexican landscapes Cecilia Diaz-Castelazo, Nathalia Chavarro-Rodriguez and Victor Rico-Gray; 10. Integrating ecological complexity into our understanding of ant-plant mutualism: ant-acacia interactions in African savannas Todd M. Palmer and Truman P. Young; 11. Ecological and evolutionary responses of protective ant-plant mutualisms to environmental changes Doyle McKey and Rumsais Blatrix; Part IV. Effect of Invasive Ants on Plants and their Mutualists: 12. Playing the system: the impacts of invasive ants and plants on facultative ant-plant interactions Suzanne Koptur, Ian M. Jones, Hong Liu and Cecilia Diaz-Castelazo; 13. Biological invasions and ant-flower networks on islands Nico Bluethgen, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury and Robert R. Junker; 14. Mutualisms and the reciprocal benefits of comparing systems with native and introduced ants Joshua H. Ness and David A. Holway; 15. Invasion biology and ant-plant systems in Australia Lori Lach; Part V. Applied Ant Ecology: Agroecosystems, Ecosystem Engineering and Restoration: 16. Services and disservices of ant communities in tropical cacao and coffee agroforestry systems Yann Clough, Stacy Philpott and Teja Tscharntke; 17. Ant-plant-herbivore interactions in northern neotropical agroecosystems Inge Armbrecht and Ivette Perfecto; 18. Leaf-cutting ants in Patagonia: how human disturbances affect their role as ecosystem engineers on soil fertility, plant fitness and trophic cascades Alejandro G.Farji-Brener, Mariana Tadey and Maria N. Lescano; Part VI. Perspectives: 19. The study of interspecific interactions in habitats under anthropogenic disturbance: importance and applications Martin Heil and Marcia Gonzalez-Teuber; 20. Why study ant-plant interactions? Andrew J. Beattie.

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• Botânica e ciências das plantas
• Ciência ecológica, a biosfera
• Insectos (entomologia)