DUCKING AS A MEANS OF RESISTANCE TO HERBIVORY IN TALL GOLDENROD,SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA

Ecology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 3275-3281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Wise ◽  
Warren G. Abrahamson
Oecologia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Wise ◽  
Jenelle M. Partelow ◽  
Katherine J. Everson ◽  
Melissa K. Anselmo ◽  
Warren G. Abrahamson

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Luke McCartin ◽  
Nabil Nasseri ◽  
Alison Brody

In ant-hemipteran mutualisms, ‘tending’ ants indiscriminately defend hemipterans from other arthropods, protecting mutualism-hosting plants from defoliating herbivores in some cases. Censuses of a treehopper, Publilia concava, observations of tending ants, and measurements of leaf area were conducted on tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima, over the course of a summer at a field site in central Vermont. Hosting ant-tended treehopper aggregations had no effect on leaf area or the ability for goldenrod to flower, suggesting that in the absence of an herbivore outbreak this mutualism is neither necessary nor inherently detrimental for goldenrod. These findings support the hypothesis that the net consequence of the ant-hemipteran mutualism for its host plant depends on the costs of hemipteran damage, and the benefits of ant defense from other arthropods.


Oecologia ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Cain ◽  
S. W. Pacala ◽  
J. A. Silander

2014 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 1357-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy J. Heath ◽  
André Kessler ◽  
Eric Woebbe ◽  
Don Cipollini ◽  
John O. Stireman

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