Meat ants as dominant members of Australian ant communities: an experimental test of their influence on the foraging success and forager abundance of other species

1994/06/01 by Alan N. Andersen, A. N. Andersen, A. D. Patel +1 · 10 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #ANT #Abundance (ecology) #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Ecology #Foraging #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Kleptoparasitism #Netting #Plant and animal studies #Predation

paper · doi:10.1007/bf00326085

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Citations

• Food robbing in ants, a form of interference competition
• Invasion of Polygyne Fire Ants Decimates Native Ants and Disrupts Arthropod Community
• Nest-plugging: interference competition in desert ants (Novomessor cockerelli and Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
• Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments
• Extreme Thermophilia in a Central Australian Ant, Melophorus bagoti
• Colony dispersion and relationships of meat antsIridomyrmex purpureus and allies in an arid locality in south Australia

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• REMOVAL EXPERIMENT REVEALS LIMITED EFFECTS OF A BEHAVIORALLY DOMINANT SPECIES ON ANT ASSEMBLAGES
• Quantifying Ant Activity Using Vibration Measurements
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• Iridomyrmex [wikipedia]
• Meat ant [wikipedia]