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Ant exclusion experiment on aphid colonies
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Description
Experimental manipulation using physical barriers to exclude ants from aphid colonies while maintaining control colonies with ant access. Uses paired treatment design on same plants to test effects of ant attendance on aphid fitness.
Typical Equipment
- Tanglefoot Company Grand Rapids Michigan
- parafilm SPI Supplies West Chester Pennsylvania
- wire
Output Measurements
- aphid population growth
- per capita growth rate
- ant activity
- predator abundance
Papers Using This Protocol (14)
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Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities
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The effect of ant tending on the fitness of aphids during and after colony establishment
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What's for lunch: deciphering ant omnivory on lupine
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Species Interactions in Arthropod Communities: Density Dependence and Ant Interactions on Aphid Per Capita Population Growth
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Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions
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Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists
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The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar
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Bottom-up mediation of an ant-membracid mutualism: effects from different host plants
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The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism
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Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on
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What is the nature of the ant-aphid relationship?
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The Combined Effects of Aphid-Ant Mutualism and Fertilizer on the Resource Allocation of Valerian edulis
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Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly
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