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Formicidae

Common names: ants

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae

Roles: excluded group, study subject, mutualist

ITIS TSN: 154193

Synonyms: ants

External: RMBL Collections

Papers: 63 | Mentions: 69

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

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Publications (63)

student_paper

Characterizing the ant-B. stricta relationship: How does plant investment in extrafloral nectar production alter ant recruitment?

2026Role: putative protective mutualist

article

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

2025Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2024Role: text_match

chapter

Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

2024Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological ResponsesRole: text_match

student_paper

Variation of wasp behavior patterns and pollination behavior on Ligusticum porteri

2024Role: excluded group

student_paper

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

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Ant Behavioral Responses to Aphids Colonizing Ligusticum porteri

Co-occurring Species

2022Role: study subject

article

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

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

article

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

2021Acta OecologicaRole: text_match

article

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

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

article

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

2020Journal of BiogeographyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2019Role: text_match

article

Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology, and Management

2019Annual Review of EntomologyRole: text_match

article

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

2019OikosRole: text_match

thesis

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

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2018Role: text_match

thesis

Host-parasite ecology of Baetis bicaudatus mayflies and Gasteromermis sp. nematodes in high-altitude streams

2018Role: text_match

article

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

student_paper

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

2017Role: text_match

thesis

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015Role: text_match

article

Genes Suggest Ancestral Colour Polymorphisms Are Shared across Morphologically Cryptic Species in Arctic Bumblebees

2015PLoS OneRole: text_match

article

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

2014EcosphereRole: text_match

student_paper

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Examining top-down and bottom up effects on aphid abundance on Ligusticum porteri

2012Role: mutualist

article

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

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

2011Role: text_match

article

Mining the plant-insect interface with a leafmining Drosophila of Arabidopsis

2011Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: text_match

thesis

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

2011Role: text_match

thesis

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

2011Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: 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

Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

2009Role: text_match

article

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

2008Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

thesis

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

article

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

2007Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

article

Lack of appropriate behavioral or development responses by mayfly larvae to trout predators

2003EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Biotic and abiotic effects on ant community structure

2002Role: text_match

article

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

2002OecologiaRole: text_match

article

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

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

chapter

Model ecosystems in behavioral ecology

2001Role: text_match

thesis

Colony growth and reproduction in the ant species Formica neorufibarbis

1997Role: text_match

student_paper

Competitive foraging interactions in a sub-alpine ant community

1997Role: text_match

article

Queen longevity, queen adoption, and posthumous indirect fitness in the facultatively polygynous ant Myrmica tahoensis

1996Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

article

Temporal and spatial variation in reproduction in the facultatively polygynous ant Myrmica tahoensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1996Ins. Soc.Role: text_match

article

Temporal and spatial variation in reproduction in the facultatively polygynous antMyrmica tahoensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1996Insectes SociauxRole: text_match

article

Exploitation of lycaenid-ant mutualisms by braconid parasitoids

1995Journal of Research on the LepidopteraRole: 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

Factors correlated with the productivity and distribution of temperate ants of the genus Myrmica

1992Role: text_match

student_paper

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

1989Role: text_match

chapter

Towards a More Exact Ecology

1989Role: text_match

chapter

Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology

1987Role: text_match

article

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

article

Lycaenid butterflies and ants: two species stable equilibria in mutualistic, commensal, and parasitic interactions

1986American NaturalistRole: text_match

article

The selective advantage of attendant ants for the larvae of a lycanaenid butterfly, Glaucopsyche lygdamus

1986Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

The ecology and evolution of symbioses between lycaenid butterflies and ants

1983Role: text_match

article

Parasitoids as selective agents in the symbiosis between lycaenid butterfly larvae and ants

1981ScienceRole: text_match

article

Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado

1962Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

Formicidae

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

Publications (63)

Characterizing the ant-B. stricta relationship: How does plant investment in extrafloral nectar production alter ant recruitment?

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

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

Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

Variation of wasp behavior patterns and pollination behavior on Ligusticum porteri

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

Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

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

Co-occurring Species

Hymenoptera

Formica

Beetles

Tapinoma sessile

Hemiptera

Lepidoptera

Aphididae

Formica obscuripes

Formica fusca

Spiders

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

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

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

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

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

Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology, and Management

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

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

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

Host-parasite ecology of <i>Baetis bicaudatus</i> mayflies and <i>Gasteromermis sp.</i> nematodes in high-altitude streams

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>

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

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

Genes Suggest Ancestral Colour Polymorphisms Are Shared across Morphologically Cryptic Species in Arctic Bumblebees

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

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

Examining top-down and bottom up effects on aphid abundance on Ligusticum porteri

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

Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

Mining the plant-insect interface with a leafmining <i>Drosophila</i> of <i>Arabidopsis</i>

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

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

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)

Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

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

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

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

Lack of appropriate behavioral or development responses by mayfly larvae to trout predators

Biotic and abiotic effects on ant community structure

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

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

Model ecosystems in behavioral ecology

Colony growth and reproduction in the ant species <i>Formica neorufibarbis</i>

Competitive foraging interactions in a sub-alpine ant community

Queen longevity, queen adoption, and posthumous indirect fitness in the facultatively polygynous ant <i>Myrmica tahoensis</i>

Temporal and spatial variation in reproduction in the facultatively polygynous ant <i>Myrmica tahoensis</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Temporal and spatial variation in reproduction in the facultatively polygynous antMyrmica tahoensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Exploitation of lycaenid-ant mutualisms by braconid parasitoids

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

Recruitment and aggression in <i>Formica neorufabarbis</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Factors correlated with the productivity and distribution of temperate ants of the genus <i>Myrmica</i>

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

Towards a More Exact Ecology

Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology

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

Lycaenid butterflies and ants: two species stable equilibria in mutualistic, commensal, and parasitic interactions

The selective advantage of attendant ants for the larvae of a lycanaenid butterfly, Glaucopsyche lygdamus

The ecology and evolution of symbioses between lycaenid butterflies and ants

Parasitoids as selective agents in the symbiosis between lycaenid butterfly larvae and ants

Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado