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Tapinoma (Tapinoma) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Tapinoma

Common names: Tapinoma, ant

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae

Roles: predator, nectar robber

ITIS TSN: 154243

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 33 | Mentions: 35

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Knowledge graph centered on Tapinoma with 73 nodes and 150 connections. Top connected: Hummingbird, Bombus, Ligusticum porteri, Bombus terrestris, Spruce.

Publications (33)

Different aspects of dominance are not equivalent when testing for trade-offs in ant communities

2025Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

Associations Between Deer Browse and Aphid Colonization in a Long-Term Monitoring Study of Liguisticum porteri

2024Role: text_match

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

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

Does <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> colony size mediate <i>Formica rufa</i> and <i>Tapinoma sessile</i> competition for mutualist aphids

2019Role: text_match

Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match

Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity

2019Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

2019Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

Co-occurring Species

T. sessile

30 shared papers

Tapinoma sessile

Formicidae29 shared papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae26 shared papers

Formica fusca

Formicidae18 shared papers

Formica rufa

Formicidae17 shared papers

Formica podzolica

Formicidae16 shared papers

Aphis helianthi

10 shared papers

Helianthella

Asteraceae10 shared papers

Valeriana

Valerianaceae9 shared papers

Helianthella quinquenervis

Asteraceae9 shared papers

2019OikosRole: text_match

Snowmelt affects aphid (<i>Aphis asclepladis</i>) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019Role: text_match

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

2018Role: text_match

Effects of Ant Presence on Nicrophorus investigatorâ€™s Reproductive Success

2018Role: text_match

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

2017OecologiaRole: text_match

Native ant (<i>Formica rufa, Formica fusca</i>), <i>Nicrophorus spp.</i> interactions at small mammal carcass resources in the southern Rocky Mountains, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado.

2017Role: text_match

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

2017Role: text_match

Effects of <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> Extrafloral Nectaries on Ant Abundance and Community Structure

2016Role: text_match

Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

2014EcosphereRole: text_match

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

2013Role: text_match

Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyRole: text_match

The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

2012Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

Role of floral nectaries and plant sex in mediating ant-aphid interactions on <i>Valeriana edulis</i>

2011Role: text_match

The effect of ant tending on the fitness of aphids during and after colony establishment

2011Role: text_match

The effect of ants on the population dynamics of <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i> a protective symbiont of aphids

2011Role: predator

Species Interactions in Arthropod Communities: Density Dependence and Ant Interactions on Aphid Per Capita Population Growth

2010Role: text_match

A balanced diet: Effects of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nutritional state on the balance between mutualism and predation upon aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

2009Role: text_match

Protection at a price? Ant interactions with pollinators on aspen sunflower (<i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>)

2009Role: text_match

Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

2009Role: text_match

Effects of nectar robbing on nectar dynamics and bumblebee foraging strategies in Linaria vulgaris

2005OikosRole: text_match

The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: nectar robber

Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

Seed protection by ants foraging on the extrafloral nectaries of the aspen sunflower, <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

1989Role: text_match

Dual function of the eliasome of <i>Corydalis aurea</i> (Fumariaceae): attraction of dispersal agents and repulsion of <i>Peromyscus maniculatus</i>, a seed predator

1986American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

A multispecies aphid-ant association: density dependence and species-specific effects

1979Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match