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Explaining the Abundance of Ants in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Canopies
- D. Davidson, S. Cook, R. Snelling, T. H. Chua
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 9 May 2003
The extraordinary abundance of ants in tropical rainforest canopies has led to speculation that numerous arboreal ant taxa feed principally as “herbivores” of plant and insect exudates. Based on… Expand
The role of resource imbalances in the evolutionary ecology of tropical arboreal ants
- D. Davidson
- Biology
- 1 June 1997
Abstract In numbers and biomass, ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) often dominate arthropod faunas of tropical rainforest canopies. Extraordinary ant abundance is due principally to one or a few species… Expand
Resource discovery versus resource domination in ants: a functional mechanism for breaking the trade‐off
- D. Davidson
- Biology
- 1 November 1998
New Perspectivesis intended to allow the communication of comments, viewpoints and speculative interpretation of issues in ecology pertinent to entomology. Comments, viewpoints or suggestions arising… Expand
Ecological Studies of Neotropical Ant Gardens
- D. Davidson
- Biology
- 1 August 1988
In a census taken in Peru's Manu National Park, 10 epiphytic angiosperms from seven plant families established principally on arboreal carton-ant nests. These "ant gardens" (AGs) were most often… Expand
Species Diversity and Community Organization in Desert Seed‐Eating Ants
- D. Davidson
- Biology
- 1 July 1977
Patterns of species diversity and community organization in desert seed-eating ants were studied in 10 habitats on a longitudinal gradient of increasing rainfall extending from southeastern… Expand
Granivory in Desert Ecosystems
- J. Brown, O. J. Reichman, D. Davidson
- Geography
- 1 November 1979
Some of the most challenging questions of contemporary biology concern the diversity and stability of ecological communities. In most natural habi tats many coexisting species of plants, animals,… Expand
Granivory and competition as determinants of annual plant diversity in the Chihuahuan desert
- D. Samson, T. Philippi, D. Davidson
- Biology
- 1 October 1992
In the Chihuahuan Desert of southeastern Arizona, we monitored the responses of three seasonal classes of annual plants (winter, summer and biseasonal species) to experimental removal of seed-eating… Expand
FORAGING ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN DESERT SEED-EATING ANTS'
- D. Davidson
- Biology
- 1 July 1977
Granivorous ants in the southwestern deserts of the United States are characterized by species-specific colony foraging behaviors that determine their efficiencies at utilizing seeds from different… Expand
Granivory in the Chihuahuan Desert : interactions within and between trophic levels
- D. Davidson, D. Samson, R. Inouye
- Biology
- 1 April 1985
We investigated the effects of Chihuahuan Desert granivores on three seasonal classes of plant resource species, the effects of these resource classes on one another, and the way in which… Expand