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Formica obscuripes

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
Roles: study subject
ITIS TSN: 154214
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 33 | Mentions: 34

Local Knowledge Graph (41 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on Formica obscuripes with 41 nodes and 128 connections. Top connected: Unknown, Ligusticum porteri, Asteraceae, Lepidoptera, Erigeron.

Publications (33)

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Indirect effect of black bears on sunflowers in nitrogen-polluted and pristine steppe

2024Role: text_match
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Breakfast of champions: Spatiotemporal variation in the quality of ant nests for bear consumers

2023Role: text_match
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Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species

2021Acta OecologicaRole: text_match
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Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match
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Short-term, low-level nitrogen deposition dampens a trophic cascade between bears and plants

2018Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

2016Role: text_match
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Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

2014EcosphereRole: text_match
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Benefits of ant attendance for aphid colonies of varying density

2013Role: text_match
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Chemical camouflage and the consequences of changing host plants in a treehopper-ant mutualism

2013Role: text_match
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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

2012Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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Ant presences alter plants: The impact <i>Formica obscuripes</i> presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity

2011Role: text_match
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Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

2011Role: text_match
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Impact of mound-building ants on ecosystem properties create islands of fertility in alpine meadows

2011Role: text_match
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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i> a protective symbiont of aphids

2011Role: study subject
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Fitness costs of the aphid endosymbiont, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

2010Role: text_match
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What's for lunch: deciphering ant omnivory on lupine

2010Role: text_match
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Reciprocal effects among the ant <i>Formica obscuripes</i> and the asters <i>Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus</i> and <i>Artemisia tridentata</i>

2009Role: text_match
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Effects of aggregation size and host plant on the survival of an ant-tended Membracid (Hemiptera: Membracidae): potential roles in selecting for generalized host plant use

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists

2008Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Ant-aphid interactions: are ants friends, enemies, or both?

2007Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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Testing the importance of the distribution of worker sizes to colony performance in the ant species Formica obscuripes Forel

2007Insectes SociauxRole: text_match
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The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

2007Role: text_match
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Bottom-up mediation of an ant-membracid mutualism: effects from different host plants

2006Evolutionary EcologyRole: text_match
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The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism

2006Role: text_match
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The Effect of Ant Colony Proximity on Membracid Survivorship

2005Role: text_match
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Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on

2004URBEERole: text_match
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What is the nature of the ant-aphid relationship?

2004Role: text_match
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The relative importance of spatial vs. temporal variability in generating a conditional mutalism

2003EcologyRole: text_match
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Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (<i>Formica obscuripes</i>) on insect abundance and diversity

2000Role: text_match
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Division of labor and worker caste efficiency in the western thatching ant Formica obscuripes

1999Role: text_match
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Differing plant communities in environments of high and low densities of <i>Formica obscuripes</i>

1993Role: text_match
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A test of the central-place foraging theory and observations on the foraging behavior of <i>Formica obscuripes</i>

1991Role: text_match
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Seed protection by ants foraging on the extrafloral nectaries of the aspen sunflower, <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

1989Role: text_match