Interactions between ants and honeydew-producing hemipteran insects are abundant and
widespread in arthropod food webs, yet their ecological consequences are very poorly …

Ants are recognized for their abilities both to engage in mutualistic interactions with diverse
taxa, and to invade and dominate habitats outside their native geographic range. Here, we …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

Since the publication of papers by Polis et al.(1989, 1992), intraguild predation (IGP) has
been considered in numerous systems and a growing number of papers have been …

Mutualism is an interaction between individuals of 2 different species of organism in which
both benefit from the association. With a focus on mutualisms between ants and aphids …

Positive species interactions have the potential to strongly influence the structure and
dynamics of ecological communities, yet surprisingly few studies have documented their …

Hailed as the single most important paper published on crop protection in the 20th century,
Stern et al. in 1959 formed the conceptual basis for modern integrated pest management …

Several influential hypotheses in plant-herbivore and herbivore-predator interactions
consider the interactive effects of plant quality, herbivore diet breadth, and predation on …

Urbanization can alter the composition of arthropod communities. However, little is known
about how urbanization affects ecological interactions. Using experimental colonies of the …

Ants positively impact agricultural systems by rapidly consuming large numbers of pest
insects, disturbing pests during feeding and oviposition, and increasing soil quality and …