NDLI: Anti-herbivore effects of an ant species, Crematogaster difformis, inhabiting myrmecophytic epiphytes in the canopy of a tropical lowland rainforest in Borneo

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Author	Tanaka, Hiroshi O. Inui, Yoko Itioka, Takao
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Ants are believed to regulate herbivorous insects in the canopy of tropical rainforests, but few studies have empirically investigated the anti-herbivore effects of the ants there. We examined the anti-herbivore effects of the ant species Crematogaster difformis, which territorializes a large area of the crown of emergent canopy trees and inhabits the myrmecophytic epiphytes, Lecanopteris sp. and Platycerium sp., which grow in the crown, by performing an ant-exclusion experiment in the field. The average proportion of leaf area loss, the proportion of damaged leaves, and the proportion of leaves with ≥50% leaf area loss were all significantly higher on experimentally ant-excluded branches than on ant-attended branches at 3 months from the beginning of the ant-exclusion treatment. These results suggest that C. difformis regulates not only herbivorous insects that potentially feed on its host epiphytes but also those that could feed on leaves of emergent canopy trees that harbor the epiphytes.
Starting Page	1393
Ending Page	1397
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09123814
Journal	Ecological Research
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	14401703
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Japan
Publisher Date	2009-06-16
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ant–plant interactions Arboreal ants Southeast Asian tropics Anti-herbivore defenses Forest canopy Forestry Behavioural Sciences Evolutionary Biology Zoology Plant Sciences Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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