Macaranga is the only plant genus in the Oriental and Australian region with a substantial radiation of myrmecophytes (with at least 23 known myrmecophytic species in the Malay Archipelago). This ...

Competition among ants for myrmecophytes and the significance of plant trichomes. Biotropica 21: 64-73. Della-Cuna FSR, Calevo J, Giovannini A, Boselli C, Tava A. 2018. Characterization of the ...

While studies on myrmecophytes (i.e. specialized plants that attract and interact with ants) have primarily focused on interspecific evaluations of EFN chemistry, the Coastal Coral tree offers an ...

While studies on myrmecophytes (i.e. specialized plants that attract and interact with ants) have primarily focused on interspecific evaluations of EFN chemistry, the Coastal Coral tree offers an ...

Myrmecophytes are found almost exclusively in the tropical regions of Australasia, Africa and the New World (Chomicki and Renner, 2015), where the pressure of pathogens and herbivores is high, and ...

Honey baits were used to assess the activity and abundance of nectar-drinking ants in fire successional habitats of rocklands on Andros Island, Bahamas. Vegetation was sampled in pineyard and coppice ...

In this paper, we propose a size-stage-structured cooperation model which has two distinct life stages in facultative cooperator. The primary feature of this model is to consider size structure, stage ...

Age-dependent changes in plant defense against herbivores are widespread, but why these changes exist remains a mystery. We explored this question by examining a suite of traits required for the ...

A healthy relationship Myrmecophytes, otherwise known as ant-plants, share a mutualistic relationship with a colony of ants. This is when two organisms of different species each benefit from the ...