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Formica

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae

Roles: study subject, mutualist

ITIS TSN: 154211

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 106 | Mentions: 109

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 74 entities)

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Publications (106)

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Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem

2026PNASRole: text_match

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Wind-driven seed dispersal differentially promotes seed trapping and retention across alpine plants

2026American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

2025Role: text_match

article

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

2025Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

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Social security: individuals in socially reciprocal groups may perceive security from predators

2025Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Co-occurring Species

Indirect effect of black bears on sunflowers in nitrogen-polluted and pristine steppe

2024Role: text_match

article

Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders

2024Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

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Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal

2024Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Breakfast of champions: Spatiotemporal variation in the quality of ant nests for bear consumers

2023Role: text_match

thesis

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

2023Role: text_match

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Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal

2023Biology LettersRole: text_match

student_paper

Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: Is group cohesion associated with dispersal?

2023Role: text_match

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Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal

2023Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Ant Behavioral Responses to Aphids Colonizing Ligusticum porteri

2022Role: text_match

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The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

2022The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match

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Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

2022Arctic ScienceRole: text_match

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Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species

2021Acta OecologicaRole: text_match

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Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

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

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

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Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance Aphis asclepiadis by creating water stressed host plants Ligusticum porteri and altering interactions with ants

2020Arthropod-Plant InteractionsRole: text_match

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Testing trade-offs and the dominance–impoverishment rule among ant communities

2020Journal of BiogeographyRole: text_match

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Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Does Aphis asclepiadis colony size mediate Formica rufa and Tapinoma sessile competition for mutualist aphids

2019Role: text_match

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Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: study subject

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

2019Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

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Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

2019Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match

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

2019OikosRole: text_match

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Snowmelt affects aphid (Aphis asclepladis) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Stridulation in Nicrophorus investigator as a Possible Means of Cooperation during Carcass Sequestration

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2018Role: text_match

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Short-term, low-level nitrogen deposition dampens a trophic cascade between bears and plants

2018Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

Genetic basis of plant-insect interactions: insect recruitment to Boechera stricta

2017Role: text_match

article

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

2017OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Helianthella quinquenervis Extrafloral Nectaries on Ant Abundance and Community Structure

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

2016Role: text_match

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

2014EcosphereRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of early snowmelt and climate warming on Valeriana edulis and the insects that depend on it.

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Benefits of ant attendance for aphid colonies of varying density

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Chemical camouflage and the consequences of changing host plants in a treehopper-ant mutualism

2013Role: text_match

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Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyRole: text_match

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Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

article

Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success

2012Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match

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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, Hamiltonella defensa

2012Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

student_paper

Ant presences alter plants: The impact Formica obscuripes presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Impact of mound-building ants on ecosystem properties create islands of fertility in alpine meadows

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: study subject

student_paper

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

2011Role: mutualist

thesis

The effect of ants on the population dynamics of Hamiltonella defensa a protective symbiont of aphids

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Fitness costs of the aphid endosymbiont, Hamiltonella defensa

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

What's for lunch: deciphering ant omnivory on lupine

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Reciprocal effects among the ant Formica obscuripes and the asters Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus and Artemisia tridentata

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

2009Role: text_match

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Effects of aggregation size and host plant on the survival of an ant-tended Membracid (Hemiptera: Membracidae): potential roles in selecting for generalized host plant use

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

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Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists

2008Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

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Mechanisms of tolerance to floral larceny in two animal-pollinated wildflowers, Polemonium viscosum and Ipomopsis aggregata

2008EcologyRole: text_match

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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

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Ant-aphid interactions: are ants friends, enemies, or both?

2007Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

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Testing the importance of the distribution of worker sizes to colony performance in the ant species Formica obscuripes Forel

2007Insectes SociauxRole: text_match

student_paper

The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

2007Role: text_match

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Bottom-up mediation of an ant-membracid mutualism: effects from different host plants

2006Evolutionary EcologyRole: text_match

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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match

student_paper

The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism

2006Role: text_match

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

2005OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

The Effect of Ant Colony Proximity on Membracid Survivorship

2005Role: text_match

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Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on

2004URBEERole: text_match

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

2004TSpaceRole: text_match

student_paper

What is the nature of the ant-aphid relationship?

2004Role: text_match

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Optimal foraging in Formica lasiodes and Formica puberula

2003Role: text_match

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The relative importance of spatial vs. temporal variability in generating a conditional mutalism

2003EcologyRole: text_match

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Worker demography in the ant Formica neorufibarbis

2003Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

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The relationship between the distribution of worker sizes and new worker production in the ant Formica neorufibarbis

2002OecologiaRole: text_match

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

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

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Density dependence and colony growth in the ant species Formica neorufibarbis

2001Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Plant resource allocation and herbivory for Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae) over an elevational gradient

2001Role: mutualist

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The impact of floral larceny on individuals, populations, and communities

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on insect abundance and diversity

2000Role: text_match

student_paper

Division of labor and worker caste efficiency in the western thatching ant Formica obscuripes

1999Role: text_match

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The use of mark/recapture to measure worker number in the rock nesting species Formica neorufibaris

1999Insectes SociauxRole: text_match

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Colony growth and reproduction in the ant species Formica neorufibarbis

1997Role: text_match

student_paper

Foraging efficiency as related to variance in worker size and colony size in Formica neorufibarbis

1996Role: text_match

student_paper

The ant/plant relationship of Formica and Helianthella

1996Role: text_match

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Relatedness threshold for the production of female sexuals in colonies of a polygynous ant, Myrmica tahoensis, as revealed by microsatellite DNA analysis

1995Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USARole: text_match

student_paper

Queen-queen interactions in the ant species Formica neorufibarbis

1994Role: text_match

student_paper

Differing plant communities in environments of high and low densities of Formica obscuripes

1993Role: text_match

student_paper

Recruitment and aggression in Formica neorufabarbis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1993Role: text_match

student_paper

The spatial arrangement of the alpine ant Formica neorufibarbis

1992Role: text_match

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A test of the central-place foraging theory and observations on the foraging behavior of Formica obscuripes

1991Role: text_match

student_paper

Seed protection by ants foraging on the extrafloral nectaries of the aspen sunflower, Helianthella quinquenervis

1989Role: text_match

student_paper

Behavior of the ground-dwelling ant Formica canadensis upon habitat displacement

1988Role: text_match

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

1986American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Rocky Mountains

1983Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

A study of interference competition among two ant species, Formica canadensis and Myrmica in Gothic, Colorado

1982Role: text_match

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The amino acids of extrafloral nectar from Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae)

1980American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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

1979Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

student_paper

A study of the life cycles of Formica neorufabarbis and Formica fusca

1965Role: text_match

Formica

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 74 entities)

Publications (106)

Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem

Wind-driven seed dispersal differentially promotes seed trapping and retention across alpine plants

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

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

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

Social security: individuals in socially reciprocal groups may perceive security from predators

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

Co-occurring Species

Beetles

Hymenoptera

Tapinoma sessile

Formica obscuripes

Formica fusca

Formicidae

Formica rufa

Hemiptera

Spiders

Myrmica tahoensis

Indirect effect of black bears on sunflowers in nitrogen-polluted and pristine steppe

Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders

Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal

Breakfast of champions: Spatiotemporal variation in the quality of ant nests for bear consumers

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal

Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: Is group cohesion associated with dispersal?

Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal

Ant Behavioral Responses to Aphids Colonizing <i> Ligusticum porteri </i>

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

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

Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> by creating water stressed host plants <i>Ligusticum porteri</i> and altering interactions with ants

Testing trade-offs and the dominance–impoverishment rule among ant communities

Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

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

Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

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

Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

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

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

Stridulation in <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> as a Possible Means of Cooperation during Carcass Sequestration

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

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

Short-term, low-level nitrogen deposition dampens a trophic cascade between bears and plants

Genetic basis of plant-insect interactions: insect recruitment to <i>Boechera stricta</i>

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

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.

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

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

The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

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

Effects of early snowmelt and climate warming on Valeriana edulis and the insects that depend on it.

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

Benefits of ant attendance for aphid colonies of varying density

Chemical camouflage and the consequences of changing host plants in a treehopper-ant mutualism

Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success

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

Ant presences alter plants: The impact <i>Formica obscuripes</i> presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity

Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

Impact of mound-building ants on ecosystem properties create islands of fertility in alpine meadows

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

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

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

Fitness costs of the aphid endosymbiont, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

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

What's for lunch: deciphering ant omnivory on lupine

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

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

Reciprocal effects among the ant <i>Formica obscuripes</i> and the asters <i>Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus</i> and <i>Artemisia tridentata</i>

Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

Effects of aggregation size and host plant on the survival of an ant-tended Membracid (Hemiptera: Membracidae): potential roles in selecting for generalized host plant use

Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists

Mechanisms of tolerance to floral larceny in two animal-pollinated wildflowers, <i>Polemonium viscosum</i> and <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>