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Species Traits Influence Response of Ant-Aphid Mutualism to Thermal Changes

Principal Investigator: Heron Lenz
Status: active
Field: Biology
Research Areas: Animal Behavior; Climate change; Community ecology; Insect biology; Modeling; Species Interactions
Items: 47 (37 publications, 9 datasets, 1 documents)

Publications (37)

Article

Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Thesis

Conditional mutualism: density- and quality-dependent responses of aphids to tending by ants

1990
Student Paper

An exploration of the effects of ant-aphid interaction on host plant growth

1995
Student Paper

The effect of 3 species of ants on aphid population success and parasitism

1974
Student Paper

The effects of light intensity on ant-aphid mutualisms on Osha (Ligusticum porteri).

2014
Student Paper

Costs and benefits of an ant-membracid mutualism in the absence of predation

2003
Thesis

The ecology and evolution of symbioses between lycaenid butterflies and ants

1983
Thesis

The evolution of specialization in lycaenid butterfly-ant mutualisms

1997
Student Paper

The Effect of an Ant-Aphid Mutualism on Deer Herbivory of Valariana edulis

2003
Student Paper

Factors correlated with the productivity and distribution of temperate ants of the genus <i>Myrmica</i>

1992
Article

A mutualistic ant-plant relationship from a high altitude temperate region

1975American Zoologist
Article

The indirect consequences of a mutualism: comparing positive and negative components of the net interaction between honeydew-tending ants and host plants

2012Journal of Animal Ecology
Article

Variation in behavior of lycaenid larvae when attended by different ant species

2000Evolutionary Ecology
Student Paper

A montane study of ecological stoichiometry in six ant species

2008
Student Paper

The ant/plant relationship of <i>Formica</i> and <i>Helianthella</i>

1996
Thesis

Predicting climate-induced shifts in burying beetle distributions: integrating niche partitioning, competition, and thermal performance

2010
Student Paper

Evidence for the existence of a mutualistic relationship between <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> and ants

1984
Article

Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.

2016Ecology Letters
Student Paper

Ants, competition, and diversity: part one

1997
Article

Lycaenid butterflies and ants: two species stable equilibria in mutualistic, commensal, and parasitic interactions

1986American Naturalist
Student Paper

Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (<i>Formica obscuripes</i>) on insect abundance and diversity

2000
Student Paper

Relationship between ants and <i>Helianthella</i>

1973
Student Paper

The herbivory effect of ant tended membracids on <i>Wyethia</i>

2000
Student Paper

A study of the effects of parasitism on aphid populations

1984
Student Paper

Temperate region interactions between ants and <i>Penstemon strictus</i>

1994
Student Paper

The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna

1992
Student Paper

Effects of size divergence on competition between Rocky Mountain ant species

1982
Student Paper

Mutualism between ants and <i>Helianthella</i>

1974
Thesis

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

2023
Student Paper

Thermal reguation of bumblebees

1973
Student Paper

Competitive foraging interactions in a sub-alpine ant community

1997
Article

Intra- and interspecific competition for mutalists: ants as a limited and limiting resource for aphids

1989OecologiaDOI: 10.1007/bf00384310
Student Paper

Social behavior of ants in the genus <i>Myrmica</i>: occurrence of worker specialization and survivorship implications

1994
Student Paper

Equality found among ant protectors of <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

1994
Thesis

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022
Thesis

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019
Student Paper

Global Climate Change Induced Shifts in Water Availability Alter Pollinator Visitation.

2014