Claim · model-written summary
Encounter rates between ants and herbivores increased as more workers visited a plant.
- Taxon
- L. japonicus
Lasius japonicuse0
- Interactor
- herbivorese0herbivore
- Second interactor
- Vicia angustifolia L.t0other
- Outcome
- encounter ratee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- as more workers visited the plante0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageTreatmentComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The encounter rate between workers of L. japonicus and herbivores increased as more workers visited the plant.”
t0“Vicia angustifolia L.”
Title
Noboru Katayama; Nobuhiko Suzuki Applied Entomology and Zoology 2005. doi:10.1303/aez.2005.69
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- Association Hypera postica larval numbers decreased with L. japonicus worker numbers on vetch in a field census.
- Association Individual ant aggressiveness against herbivores increased as more workers visited a plant.
- Association Herbivore residence time was negatively correlated with ant worker numbers on a plant.
- Association Authors expect herbivore exclusion efficiency to increase rapidly when ant numbers reach a certain level.