Lowering the density: ants associated with the myrmecophyte

Carmen Agglael Vergara-Torres, Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo, Víctor Hugo Toledo-Hernández, Alejandro Flores-Palacios

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Article in AoB PLANTS, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Carmen Agglael Vergara-TorresDepartamento de Biología, División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México 09340, México.

Cecilia Díaz-CastelazoRed de Interacciones Multitróficas, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Carretera antigua a Coatepec No. 351, El Haya, Xalapa, 91073, Veracruz, México.

Víctor Hugo Toledo-HernándezCentro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación (CIByC), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62209, México.

Alejandro Flores-PalaciosCentro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación (CIByC), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62209, México.

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos · MXInstituto de Ecología · MXUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana · MX

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ants benefit myrmecophytic plants by two main activities defending them from herbivores and offering nutrients. Ants' territorial defence behaviour also benefits their myrmecophytic plants; in the case of trees, this behaviour includes eliminating structural parasites (epiphytes and lianas). These benefits could also occur with myrmecophytic epiphytes by decreasing the abundance of competing epiphytes. In two subunits of a tropical dry forest in the centre of Mexico, we (i) recorded the diversity of ants associated with the myrmecophyte

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Ant–plant interactionsplant establishmentplant–plant interactionsseed remotion

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PMID34249306

DOI10.1093/aobpla/plab024

PMCPMC8266655

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