Plants with extrafloral nectaries share indirect defenses and shape the local arboreal ant community

RF Moura, K Del-Claro - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
Associational resistance (AR) is a positive interaction in which a plant suffers less herbivore
damage due to its association with a protective plant. Here, we evaluated whether plants …

Plant species with larger extrafloral nectaries produce better quality nectar when needed and interact with the best ant partners

CLS Alencar, A Nogueira, RE Vicente… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Few studies have explored the phenotypic plasticity of nectar production on plant
attractiveness to ants. Here, we investigate the role of extrafloral nectary (EFN) size on the …

Extrafloral Nectary-Bearing Plants Recover Ant Association Benefits Faster and More Effectively after Frost-Fire Events Than Frost

GF Porto, JH Pezzonia, K Del-Claro - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Cerrado confronts threats such as fire and frost due to natural or human-induced factors.
These disturbances trigger attribute changes that impact biodiversity. Given escalating …

Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees

M Staab, S Pietsch, H Yan, N Blüthgen, A Cheng… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant diversity can increase productivity. One mechanism behind this biodiversity effect is
facilitation, which is when one species increases the performance of another species. Plants …

Mutualistic interactions between plants with extrafloral nectaries and ants: ecological impacts, ant sharing among neighboring plants, and the effects of environmental …

R do Rosario Nogueira - Community Ecology, 2025 - Springer
Mutualistic interactions between plants bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) and ants are key
ecological processes in many ecosystems, particularly in the Neotropics. These interactions …

Padrão geográfico de plantas com nectários extraflorais em biomas brasileiros

VDC Barbosa - 2023 - repositorio.ifgoiano.edu.br
Plantas com nectários extraflorais são muito comuns no Brasil, mas percebe-se pela
literatura que a maioria dos estudos parece abordar plantas do bioma Cerrado. Isso poderia …

Extrafloral nectaries exhibit dual ecological functions in a plant from the Brazilian Cerrado

RF Moura, LR Dos Santos, VM da Costa Silva… - Arthropod-Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) are nectar-secreting plant glands not related to pollination.
Several not mutually exclusive hypotheses explain the ecological function of EFNs. We …

Fabaceae and Cerrado savanna: Two descriptors of Brazilian extrafloral nectary plants

VDC Barbosa, A Bächtold, K Del-Claro, EA Silva - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) have been described in almost 4000 plant species, but there are
several gaps in our knowledge of their occurrence and distribution. Here, we investigated …

O efeito do fogo e geadas no Cerrado sobre o mutualismo entre a planta extranectarífera Ouratea spectabilis (Mart.) Engl.(Ochnaceae) e formigas.

GF Porto - 2022 - repositorio.ufu.br
RESUMO O Cerrado é uma savana com grande diversidade exposta a distúrbios como fogo
e geadas, estes distúrbios agem como importante força evolutiva para espécies locais e …