🐜 Experimentally increasing sugar resources disrupted the existing resource partitioning between ant species & altered the composition of ants defending silver cholla. Partitioning of resources between ant species influences defense on silver cholla @braunj.bsky.social 👇
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A chapter of my PhD. just came out in Journal of Ecology. I studied ant defense in a population of silver cholla, Cylindropuntia echinocarpa, an extrafloral nectary bearing shrub in the Cactaceae of the Mojave Desert.

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