Calabuig Gomar, Altea; García Mari, Ferran; Pekas, Apostolos(Cambridge University Press (CUP): STM Journals, 2014-08)
[EN] Ants act simultaneously as predators and as hemipteran mutualists, and thereby
may affect the composition and population dynamics of a wide arthropod
community. We conducted ant-exclusion experiments in order to ...
[EN] BACKGROUNDThe vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) is a key pest of grapevine in the Mediterranean Basin. Some honeydew collecting ant species are known to increase mealybug populations ...
Pekas, Apostolos; Tena Barreda, Alejandro; Aguilar Martí, Mª Amparo; García Mari, Ferran(Oxford University Press, 2010)
[EN] We conducted an ant-exclusion experiment in a citrus orchard to evaluate the overall
impact of three ant species native in the Mediterranean, Pheidole pallidula (Nylander), Plagiolepis
schmitzii Forel, and Lasius ...
Pekas, Apostolos; Tena Barreda, Alejandro; Aguilar Martí, Mª Amparo; García Mari, Ferran(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
1 The role of ants in the citrus agro-ecosystem is controversial and understanding
their ecology may help to clarify their function. The present study determined the
daily and seasonal foraging patterns, the spatial ...