Ants and Trees: A Lifelong Relationship - American Forests
This kind of indirect mutualism — trees provide ants with shelter; ants feed on herbivorous insects; ant wastes nourish the tree — is widespread in most forests. Trees also can benefit …
Why red wood ants are the forest's tiny but mighty superheroes
2025年1月13日 · These ants are saving our forests—by spraying acid everywhere. The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its …
Ant utilization of tree trunks in relation to environmental factors in ...
2024年12月1日 · Here, we explore the correlation between the horizontal distribution of ants in a forest and environmental factors (topography, tree size, tree species), with a specific focus on …
Ants are the major agents of resource removal from tropical …
2017年8月8日 · Through the removal of food resources from the forest floor and subsequent transport to nests, ants play an important role in the redistribution of nutrients in rainforests. …
Explaining the Abundance of Ants in Lowland Tropical ... - Science
2003年5月9日 · The extraordinary abundance of ants in tropical rainforest canopies has led to speculation that numerous arboreal ant taxa feed principally as “herbivores” of plant and insect …
Research highlights the role of ants in forest regeneration ...
Woodland ants take the seeds with fatty rewards back to their nests, protecting them from consumption by rodents and other organisms. Once the fatty appendages are consumed, the …
Ants and Their Role in Forest Regeneration: A Green Helper
Ants perform several ecological functions that are essential to forest health and regeneration. These include soil aeration, nutrient cycling, seed dispersal, and biological control of pests. …
Land use system effects on biodiversity of litter ants …
1 天前 · The species diversity of ants in three different land use types: forest, old cocoa farm and palm grove were studied to determine and evaluated the effect of land-use on diversity and …
Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American ...
2024年11月10日 · We directly compared ant diversity and community composition on the ground and in the tree canopy of North American temperate deciduous forests for the first time. We …
Tree diversity promotes predator but not omnivore ants in a …
2014年7月30日 · Epigeic ants are functionally important arthropods in tropical and subtropical forests, particularly by acting as predators. High predation pressure has been hypothesised to …