Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards

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Autor(a) principal: Costa, Sofia Conde
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14836
Resumo: Mestrado em Engenharia Agronómica - Proteção das plantas / Instituto Superior de Agronomia
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spelling Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchardscompetitioninvasive speciesLasius grandisLinepithema humileTapinoma nigerrimumMestrado em Engenharia Agronómica - Proteção das plantas / Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr) established in the South of Portugal (Algarve), about 120 years ago. Zina et al. (2017) compared the composition of ant communities foraging in tree canopy in citrus orchards among the three ecological subregions of Algarve (Litoral, Barrocal and Serra) and observed that the invasive dominant species L. humile was absent from Serra. In this work, we tested the hypothesis that dominant native ant species, such as Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander) and Lasius grandis Forel could prevent the Argentine ant from invading Serra. Laboratory experiments were carried out, using both Petri dish arenas and cages to assess the antagonistic interactions between the Argentine ant and two dominant native species, at the individual and colony level, respectively. Overall, our results support the tested hypothesis. At the individual level, both T. nigerrimum and L. grandis showed higher aggression and survival levels than Argentine ant. At the colony level, the results suggest that both the Argentine ant and T. nigerrimum were able to recruit a relative large number of individuals from the colony when trying to colonise a food resource defended by the competitor species. In our experimental conditions, T. nigerrimum showed to be more efficient than Argentine ant in this type of competition, as it was able to defend a food resource in four out of five times from the attack of the former species, as well as to dominate a resource defended by Argentine ant in four out of five timesISASilva, José Carlos Franco SantosZina, Vera Henriques Leitão FrancoRepositório da Universidade de LisboaCosta, Sofia Conde2018-02-01T13:39:15Z20172017-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14836engCosta, S.C. - Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards. Lisboa: ISA, 2017, 32 p.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-06T14:44:51Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/14836Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:00:37.585910Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
title Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
spellingShingle Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
Costa, Sofia Conde
competition
invasive species
Lasius grandis
Linepithema humile
Tapinoma nigerrimum
title_short Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
title_full Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
title_fullStr Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
title_full_unstemmed Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
title_sort Antagonistic interactions between dominant invasive and native ant species in citrus orchards
author Costa, Sofia Conde
author_facet Costa, Sofia Conde
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Silva, José Carlos Franco Santos
Zina, Vera Henriques Leitão Franco
Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Costa, Sofia Conde
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv competition
invasive species
Lasius grandis
Linepithema humile
Tapinoma nigerrimum
topic competition
invasive species
Lasius grandis
Linepithema humile
Tapinoma nigerrimum
description Mestrado em Engenharia Agronómica - Proteção das plantas / Instituto Superior de Agronomia
publishDate 2017
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2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
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