Ant Species Identity has a Greater Effect than Fire on the Outcome of an Ant Protection System in Brazilian Cerrado

Fire triggers the activity of extrafloral nectaries, but ants fail to protect the plant against herbivores in a neotropical savanna

(2014) Estevão Alves-Silva et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Conditional outcomes in ant–plant–herbivore interactions influenced by sequential flowering

(2014) Andréa Andrade Vilela et al.   FLORA

Ant–herbivore interactions in an extrafloral nectaried plant: are ants good plant guards against curculionid beetles?

(2014) Estevão Alves-Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Different combinations of multiple defence traits in an extrafloral nectary-bearing plant growing under various habitat conditions

(2013) Akira Yamawo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Importance of interaction frequency in analysis of ant-plant networks in tropical environments

(2013) Wesley Dáttilo et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Ants Visiting the Post-Floral Secretions of Pericarpial Nectaries in Palicourea rigida (Rubiaceae) Provide Protection Against Leaf Herbivores But Not Against Seed Parasites

(2013) Kleber Del-Claro et al.   SOCIOBIOLOGY

Emergent Impacts of Ant and Spider Interactions: Herbivory Reduction in a Tropical Savanna Tree

(2012) Larissa Nahas et al.   BIOTROPICA

Natural history of an ant–plant–butterfly interaction in a Neotropical savanna

(2012) Alexandra Bächtold et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Nectar- and pollen-gathering Cephalotes ants provide no protection against herbivory: a new manipulative experiment to test ant protective capabilities

(2010) Jonas Byk et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology

(2010) David I. Warton et al.   ECOLOGY

Ant visitation to extrafloral nectaries decreases herbivory and increases fruit set in Chamaecrista debilis (Fabaceae) in a Neotropical savanna

(2010) Elynton Alves do Nascimento et al.   FLORA

Benefits for Plants in Ant-Plant Protective Mutualisms: A Meta-Analysis

(2010) Matthew D. Trager et al.   PLoS One

Egg‐Laying Butterflies Distinguish Predaceous Ants by Sight

(2009) Sebastián F. Sendoya et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Quantitative synthesis of context dependency in ant–plant protection mutualisms

(2009) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY

The evolution of facilitation and mutualism

(2009) Judith L. Bronstein   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Insect-plant interactions: new pathways to a better comprehension of ecological communities in Neotropical savannas

(2009) Kleber Del-Claro et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ants on plants: a meta-analysis of the role of ants as plant biotic defenses

(2009) Felix B. Rosumek et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dynamics of the Leaf-Litter Arthropod Fauna Following Fire in a Neotropical Woodland Savanna

(2009) Heraldo L. Vasconcelos et al.   PLoS One

Ecological specialization and the evolution of a specialized caste inCephalotesants

(2008) Scott Powell   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna

(2008) T. M. Palmer et al.   SCIENCE