Menzel, Florian ; Pokorny, Tamara ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Schmitt, Thomas (2010)
Trail-sharing among tropical ants: interspecific use of trail pheromones?
In: Ecological Entomology, 35 (4)
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Abstract
Trail-sharing between different ant species is rare and restricted to a small number of species pairs. Its underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. For trail-sharing to occur, two factors are required: (i) one or both species must recognise the other species or its pheromone trails and (ii) both species must tolerate each other to a certain extent to allow joint use of the trail. A species that follows another's trails can efficiently exploit the other's information on food sources contained in the pheromone trails. Hence, food competition and thus aggressive interactions between a species following another's trail and the species being followed, seem likely.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Erschienen: | 2010 |
| Creators: | Menzel, Florian ; Pokorny, Tamara ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Schmitt, Thomas |
| Type of entry: | Bibliographie |
| Title: | Trail-sharing among tropical ants: interspecific use of trail pheromones? |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | August 2010 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ecological Entomology |
| Volume of the journal: | 35 |
| Issue Number: | 4 |
| URL / URN: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.... |
| Abstract: | Trail-sharing between different ant species is rare and restricted to a small number of species pairs. Its underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. For trail-sharing to occur, two factors are required: (i) one or both species must recognise the other species or its pheromone trails and (ii) both species must tolerate each other to a certain extent to allow joint use of the trail. A species that follows another's trails can efficiently exploit the other's information on food sources contained in the pheromone trails. Hence, food competition and thus aggressive interactions between a species following another's trail and the species being followed, seem likely. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ant mosaics, dominance hierarchy, formicidae, informational parasitism, interspecific aggression, olfactory eavesdropping, trail pheromones, trail-sharing |
| Divisions: | 10 Department of Biology ?? fb10_zoologie ?? 10 Department of Biology > Synthetic Ecological Networks |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2011 12:12 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2013 09:54 |
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