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Trophic ecology of invasive Argentine ants in their native and introduced ranges
- C. V. Tillberg, D. Holway, E. LeBrun, A. Suarez
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 26 December 2007
Although the ecological effects of invasions often become obvious soon after introduced species become established, more gradual effects may take years to manifest and can thus require long-term data… Expand
Measuring the trophic ecology of ants using stable isotopes
- C. V. Tillberg, D. P. McCarthy, A. Dolezal, A. Suarez
- Biology
- Insectes Sociaux
- 1 February 2006
Abstract.Ants are prominent components of most terrestrial arthropod food webs, yet due to their highly variable diet, the role ants play in arthropod communities can be difficult to resolve. Stable… Expand
Caste Determination in a Polymorphic Social Insect: Nutritional, Social, and Genetic Factors
- C. Smith, K. E. Anderson, C. V. Tillberg, J. Gadau, A. Suarez
- Medicine, Biology
- The American Naturalist
- 15 August 2008
We examined how dietary, social, and genetic factors affect individual size and caste in the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius, which has three discrete female castes. The diet that a larva… Expand
An experimental study of competition between fire ants and Argentine ants in their native range.
- E. LeBrun, C. V. Tillberg, A. Suarez, P. Folgarait, C. Smith, D. Holway
- Biology, Medicine
- Ecology
- 2007
An understanding of why introduced species achieve ecological success in novel environments often requires information about the factors that limit the abundance of these taxa in their native ranges.… Expand
Friend or foe? A behavioral and stable isotopic investigation of an ant–plant symbiosis
- C. V. Tillberg
- Biology, Medicine
- Oecologia
- 4 June 2004
In ant–plant symbioses, the behavior of ant inhabitants affects the nature of the interaction, ranging from mutualism to parasitism. Mutualistic species confer a benefit to the plant, while parasites… Expand
Placing an Omnivore in a Complex Food Web: Dietary Contributions to Adult Biomass of an Ant1
- C. V. Tillberg, M. Breed
- Biology
- 1 June 2004
ABSTRACT Workers of Paraponera clavata, a common Neotropical ant, collect both nectar and insect prey. Previous reports show that nectar accounts for up to 90 percent of the ants' food loads, while… Expand
Nutritional Asymmetries Are Related to Division of Labor in a Queenless Ant
- C. Smith, A. Suarez, +4 authors C. V. Tillberg
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 23 August 2011
Eusocial species exhibit pronounced division of labor, most notably between reproductive and non-reproductive castes, but also within non-reproductive castes via morphological specialization and… Expand
Trophic ecology of the invasive argentine ant: spatio-temporal variation in resource assimilation and isotopic enrichment
- S. Menke, A. Suarez, C. V. Tillberg, C. Chou, D. Holway
- Biology, Medicine
- Oecologia
- 25 June 2010
Studies of food webs often employ stable isotopic approaches to infer trophic position and interaction strength without consideration of spatio-temporal variation in resource assimilation by… Expand
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION TO ANT OMNIVORY IN PINE FORESTS
- K. Mooney, C. V. Tillberg
- Biology
- 1 May 2005
To understand omnivore function in food webs, we must know the contributions of resources from different trophic levels and how resource use changes through space and time. We investigated the… Expand
Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.
- E. Mooney, J. S. Phillips, C. V. Tillberg, Cheryl Sandrow, A. S. Nelson, K. Mooney
- Biology, Medicine
- Ecology letters
- 2016
Species abundance is typically determined by the abiotic environment, but the extent to which such effects occur through the mediation of biotic interactions, including mutualisms, is unknown. We… Expand