Floral visitation by the Argentine ant reduces pollinator visitation and seed set in the coast barrel cactus, Ferocactus viridescens

Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits?

(2012) Gavin Ballantyne et al.   PLoS One

How do plants balance multiple mutualists? Correlations among traits for attracting protective bodyguards and pollinators in cotton (Gossypium)

(2011) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Consequences of ants and extrafloral nectar for a pollinating seed-consuming mutualism: ant satiation, floral distraction or plant defense?

(2011) J. Nathaniel Holland et al.   OIKOS

A Meta-Analysis of Predation Risk Effects on Pollinator Behaviour

(2011) Gustavo Q. Romero et al.   PLoS One

Floral visitation patterns of two invasive ant species and their effects on other hymenopteran visitors

(2010) LORI LACH   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A facultative mutualism between aphids and an invasive ant increases plant reproduction

(2010) JOHN D. STYRSKY et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Hawaiian ant–flower networks: nectar-thieving ants prefer undefended native over introduced plants with floral defenses

(2010) Robert R. Junker et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Nutrition and interference competition have interactive effects on the behavior and performance of Argentine ants

(2010) Adam D. Kay et al.   ECOLOGY

Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

(2010) E. Toby Kiers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Are invasive ants better plant-defense mutualists? A comparison of foliage patrolling and herbivory in sites with invasive yellow crazy ants and native weaver ants

(2010) Lori Lach et al.   OIKOS

Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

(2010) T. M. Palmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantitative synthesis of context dependency in ant–plant protection mutualisms

(2009) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY

Floral volatiles controlling ant behaviour

(2009) Pat G. Willmer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

DENSITY-MEDIATED, CONTEXT-DEPENDENT CONSUMER–RESOURCE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ANTS AND EXTRAFLORAL NECTAR PLANTS

(2008) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY

Effectiveness and Importance of Pollinators to the Star Cactus (Astrophytum asterias)

(2008) Andrew W. Blair et al.   SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST