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Formica obscuripes

Common names: thatch ant, Western Thatching Ant, thatch ants, western thatching ants, ant, thatch mound ant, western thatching ant, Northern thatch ant

Formica obscuripes

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Publications (35)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Co-occurring Species

Formica

Artemisia tridentata

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

Artemisia

Chrysothamnus

Aphaenogaster tridentata

Spiders

Membracidae

Publilia modesta

Formicidae

Benefits of ant attendance for aphid colonies of varying density

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

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

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>

What's for lunch: deciphering ant omnivory on lupine

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

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

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

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

The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

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

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

The Effect of Ant Colony Proximity on Membracid Survivorship

Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on

What is the nature of the ant-aphid relationship?

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

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

Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (<i>Formica obscuripes</i>) on insect abundance and diversity

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

Differing plant communities in environments of high and low densities of <i>Formica obscuripes</i>

A test of the central-place foraging theory and observations on the foraging behavior of <i>Formica obscuripes</i>

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