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Research Plan
Species Traits Influence Response of Ant-Aphid Mutualism to Thermal Changes
Principal Investigator:
Heron Lenz
Status:
active
Field:
Biology
Research Areas:
Animal Behavior; Climate change; Community ecology; Insect biology; Modeling; Species Interactions
Items:
47 (37 publications, 9 datasets, 1 documents)
Publications (37)
Article
Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism
2019
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Thesis
Conditional mutualism: density- and quality-dependent responses of aphids to tending by ants
1990
Student Paper
An exploration of the effects of ant-aphid interaction on host plant growth
1995
Student Paper
The effect of 3 species of ants on aphid population success and parasitism
1974
Student Paper
The effects of light intensity on ant-aphid mutualisms on Osha (Ligusticum porteri).
2014
Student Paper
Costs and benefits of an ant-membracid mutualism in the absence of predation
2003
Thesis
The ecology and evolution of symbioses between lycaenid butterflies and ants
1983
Thesis
The evolution of specialization in lycaenid butterfly-ant mutualisms
1997
Student Paper
The Effect of an Ant-Aphid Mutualism on Deer Herbivory of Valariana edulis
2003
Student Paper
Factors correlated with the productivity and distribution of temperate ants of the genus <i>Myrmica</i>
1992
Article
A mutualistic ant-plant relationship from a high altitude temperate region
1975
American Zoologist
Article
The indirect consequences of a mutualism: comparing positive and negative components of the net interaction between honeydew-tending ants and host plants
2012
Journal of Animal Ecology
Article
Variation in behavior of lycaenid larvae when attended by different ant species
2000
Evolutionary Ecology
Student Paper
A montane study of ecological stoichiometry in six ant species
2008
Student Paper
The ant/plant relationship of <i>Formica</i> and <i>Helianthella</i>
1996
Thesis
Predicting climate-induced shifts in burying beetle distributions: integrating niche partitioning, competition, and thermal performance
2010
Student Paper
Evidence for the existence of a mutualistic relationship between <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> and ants
1984
Article
Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.
2016
Ecology Letters
Student Paper
Ants, competition, and diversity: part one
1997
Article
Lycaenid butterflies and ants: two species stable equilibria in mutualistic, commensal, and parasitic interactions
1986
American Naturalist
Student Paper
Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (<i>Formica obscuripes</i>) on insect abundance and diversity
2000
Student Paper
Relationship between ants and <i>Helianthella</i>
1973
Student Paper
The herbivory effect of ant tended membracids on <i>Wyethia</i>
2000
Student Paper
A study of the effects of parasitism on aphid populations
1984
Student Paper
Temperate region interactions between ants and <i>Penstemon strictus</i>
1994
Student Paper
The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna
1992
Student Paper
Effects of size divergence on competition between Rocky Mountain ant species
1982
Student Paper
Mutualism between ants and <i>Helianthella</i>
1974
Thesis
Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring
2023
Student Paper
Thermal reguation of bumblebees
1973
Student Paper
Competitive foraging interactions in a sub-alpine ant community
1997
Article
Intra- and interspecific competition for mutalists: ants as a limited and limiting resource for aphids
1989
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/bf00384310
Student Paper
Social behavior of ants in the genus <i>Myrmica</i>: occurrence of worker specialization and survivorship implications
1994
Student Paper
Equality found among ant protectors of <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>
1994
Thesis
Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change
2022
Thesis
How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?
2019
Student Paper
Global Climate Change Induced Shifts in Water Availability Alter Pollinator Visitation.
2014
Datasets (9)
Dataset
Data from: Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity
2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6kn128
Dataset
Data from: Variation in season length and development time is sufficient to drive the emergence and coexistence of social and solitary behavioral strategies
2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zmr
Dataset
Global Bee Interaction Data
2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14624975
Dataset
Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset
Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/3
Dataset
Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/2
Dataset
Data from: Foraging efficiency and size matching in a plant – pollinator community: the importance of sugar content and tongue length
2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2s74q4
Dataset
Data for 'Weak latitudinal gradients in insect herbivory for dominant rangeland grasses of North America'
2020
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/910304380fc270f138f6b0f4307a5dcc
Documents (1)
Document
Wildlife Impacts
Dataset
Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA
2020
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/953d0af267ddb6a0ddb970bff3218a61