The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions
Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira
Abstract
Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing 10–15 percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions—such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory—that have helped to shape their great diversity. This book brings together findings from the scientific literature on the coevolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two groups, of interspecific interactions in general, and ultimately, of terrestrial biologi ... More
Keywords: ants, terrestrial ecosystems, flowering plants, coevolution, ant–plant interactions, pollination, seed dispersal, herbivory, diversity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226713472 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226713540.001.0001 |
