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Are red imported fire ants facilitators of native seed dispersal?
Invasive ants threaten native communities, in part, through their potential to disrupt mutualisms, yet invasive species may also facilitate native species. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) is one of...
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Differential seed and seedling predation by crabs: impacts on tropical coastal forest composition
Recently, the importance of seed predation by crabs on mangrove species distributions and densities has been established by several studies. In a tropical coastal terrestrial forest in Costa Rica, we investiga...
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Ecological Management of Sensitive Natural Areas
Most of the world’s remaining “midlands” are relatively small areas that are located in highly intrusive economic landscapes. The populations, species interactions, and system properties enclosed in these area...
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An Evaluation of Ants as Possible Candidates for Biological Control in Tropical Annual Agroecosystems
Past researchers have usually regarded the search for candidates for pest control programs as a biological problem. But pest control is essentially a social and economic problem that uses biological technology...
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The dynamics of seed harvesting in early successional communities by a tropical ant, Solenopsis geminata
The neotropical ant, Solenopsis geminata, in the moist lowlands of southeastern Mexico was most abundant in agricultural fields and early second growth habitats. It was not found within forest habitats.
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Tropical annual crop** systems: Ant ecology
The ecological role of ants in tropical annual crop** systems is discussed in general and with respect to a specific Mexican agroecosystem Generally, the potential positive contributions of ants to crop yiel...
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The ecological role of ants in two Mexican agroecosystems
The development of the ant communities and their foraging dynamics were studied in two annual agroecosystems of the Mexican tropical lowlands: a “forest milpa” of corn, beans, and squash made by cutting and bu...
