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chemical cues

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

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Definition

Chemical signals that organisms use to obtain information about their environment

Related Terms (4)

plant chemicalsolfactory cueschemical cuesscents

Publications (2)

article

Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

2020Ecological Entomology

student_paper

The ability of ants to associatively learn based on olfactory chemical cues produced by plants.

2017

chemical cues

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Definition

Related Terms (4)

Publications (2)

Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

The ability of ants to associatively learn based on olfactory chemical cues produced by plants.

Related Concepts (6)

myrmecophily

associative learning

resource allocation

induced plant defenses

chemical ecology

choice test

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Formica fusca

Helianthella quinquenervis

Ligusticum porteri

Camponotus herculeanus