Enough is enough: the effects of symbiotic ant abundance on herbivory, growth, and reproduction in an African acacia

The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree

(2011) Maureen L. Stanton et al.   ECOLOGY

Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in an African Savanna

(2010) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Benefit and cost curves for typical pollination mutualisms

(2010) William F. Morris et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant defence theory re-examined: nonlinear expectations based on the costs and benefits of resource mutualisms

(2010) Rachel L. Vannette et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants

(2009) Megan E. Frederickson et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantitative synthesis of context dependency in ant–plant protection mutualisms

(2009) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) T. M. Palmer et al.   SCIENCE