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DOI	10.1111/een.12695
	Foraging preferences of ants on a heterogeneous Brazilian sandy shore habitat
	Vidal, Mayra C.1,2; Silva, Ana K.2; Sendoya, Sebastian F.2,3
通讯作者	Vidal, Mayra C.
来源期刊	ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
ISSN	0307-6946
EISSN	1365-2311
出版年	2019
卷号	44 期号:2 页码:283-286
英文摘要	1. Ants may select their food in response to nutritional needs of the colony and forage in a way that optimises a complementary nutrition. Even though resource availability is known to affect ant colony and individual health, there is still no study that has investigated the plastic preferences of ants according to spatial resource availability in naturally heterogeneous conditions. 2. Beaches are great biomes to test spatial foraging preference because a complete absence of nectaries can be found. Dorymyrmex nigra Pergande 1896 was found inhabiting a beach in southeastern Brazil, in which nectar sources are heterogeneously distributed. This study tested whether the foraging preference to sugar baits depended on the availability of nectar sources surrounding the nests. 3. We found that more D. nigra workers foraged on sugar baits when the colonies lacked naturally occurring nectar in their vicinity compared with colonies with abundant nectar nearby. 4. These results show that the foraging preference of ants depends upon resource availability. This is the first study to use a natural mosaic of resource availability to show that resource preference of ants is plastic and varies spatially.
英文关键词	optimal foraging beach nectar ants
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA ; Brazil
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000460077500015
WOS关键词	BAIT PREFERENCES ; RAIN-FOREST ; LITTER ; ABUNDANCE ; DESERT
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/215179
作者单位	1.Syracuse Univ, Dept Biol, 358 Life Sci Complex,107 Coll Pl, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA; 2.Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Grad Program Ecol, Dept Anim Biol, Campinas, Brazil; 3.Univ Fed Pelotas, Dept Zool Ecol & Genet, Pelotas, Brazil
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vidal, Mayra C.,Silva, Ana K.,Sendoya, Sebastian F.. Foraging preferences of ants on a heterogeneous Brazilian sandy shore habitat[J],2019,44(2):283-286.
APA	Vidal, Mayra C.,Silva, Ana K.,&Sendoya, Sebastian F..(2019).Foraging preferences of ants on a heterogeneous Brazilian sandy shore habitat.ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY,44(2),283-286.
MLA	Vidal, Mayra C.,et al."Foraging preferences of ants on a heterogeneous Brazilian sandy shore habitat".ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY 44.2(2019):283-286.