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A comparison of volatiles in mandibular glands from three Crematogaster ant symbionts of the whistling thorn acacia

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A role for indirect facilitation in maintaining diversity in a guild of African acacia ants

scientific article

A soil‐nesting invasive ant disrupts carbon dynamics in saplings of a foundational ant–plant

scientific article published on 25 November 2021

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

scientific article

An invasive ant reduces diversity but does not disrupt a key ecosystem function in an African savanna

scholarly article by Patrick D. Milligan published in October 2016

Aridity weakens population-level effects of multiple species interactions on Hibiscus meyeri

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Bottle or Big-Scale Studies: How do we do Ecology?

scientific article published in 1996

Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna

scientific article

Burning bridges: priority effects and the persistence of a competitively subordinate acacia-ant in Laikipia, Kenya

scientific article published on November 2002

Carbohydrate as Fuel for Foraging, Resource Defense and Colony Growth - a Long-term Experiment with the Plant-antCrematogaster nigriceps

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Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity ⬇️

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Climatic stress mediates the impacts of herbivory on plant population structure and components of individual fitness

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Climatic variation modulates the indirect effects of large herbivores on small-mammal habitat use.

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Colonisation and competition dynamics can explain incomplete sterilisation parasitism in ant-plant symbioses

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

Competition and coexistence: exploring mechanisms that restrict and maintain diversity within mutualist guilds

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Competition and compensation among cattle, zebras, and elephants in a semi-arid savanna in Laikipia, Kenya

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Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Context-Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small-Mammal Communities in Central Kenya

scholarly article by Hillary S. Young et al published January 2015 in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

scientific article published on March 2015

Cryptic herbivores mediate the strength and form of ungulate impacts on a long-lived savanna tree

scientific article

Defensive plant-ants stabilize megaherbivore-driven landscape change in an African savanna

scientific article

Disruption of a protective ant-plant mutualism by an invasive ant increases elephant damage to savanna trees

scientific article published on March 2015

Disruption of an ant-plant mutualism shapes interactions between lions and their primary prey

scientific article published on 25 January 2024

Ecological Importance of Large Herbivores in the Ewaso Ecosystem

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Ecological erosion of an Afrotropical forest and potential consequences for tree recruitment and forest biomass

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Economy of scale: third partner strengthens a keystone ant-plant mutualism

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Effects of fire on bird diversity and abundance in an East African savanna

scientific article published in 2006

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

scientific article (publication date: July 2013)

Effects of simulated shoot and leaf herbivory on vegetative growth and plant defense in Acacia drepanolobium

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Elephants in the understory: opposing direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering by megaherbivores.

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Enough is enough: the effects of symbiotic ant abundance on herbivory, growth, and reproduction in an African acacia

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Contingent Conclusions: Year of Initiation Influences Ecological Field Experiments, but Temporal Replication is Rare

Frenemy at the gate: invasion by Pheidole megacephala facilitates a competitively subordinate plant ant in Kenya

scientific article published on 24 October 2020

Good neighbors make good defenses: associational refuges reduce defense investment in African savanna plants

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Habitat-specific AMF symbioses enhance drought tolerance of a native Kenyan grass

scientific article published in 2017

Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally

scientific article published on 3 November 2023

Impacts of worker density in colony-level aggression, expansion, and survival of the acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae

scientific article published in 2017

Influence of neighboring plants on the dynamics of an ant-acacia protection mutualism

scientific article

Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

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Interacting effects of wildlife loss and climate on ticks and tick-borne disease

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Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

scientific article published in October 2014

Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways

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Large herbivores promote habitat specialization and beta diversity of African savanna trees

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Large herbivores suppress liana infestation in an African savanna

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Large herbivores transform plant-pollinator networks in an African savanna

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Left out in the cold: temperature-dependence of defense in an African ant-plant mutualism

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Leveraging nature's backup plans to incorporate interspecific interactions and resilience into restoration

scientific article published in 2016

Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2014)

Mechanisms of plant-plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2014)

Mutualism as reciprocal exploitation: African plant-ants defend foliar but not reproductive structures

scientific article

Mutualism disruption by an invasive ant reduces carbon fixation for a foundational East African ant‐plant

scientific article published on 21 March 2021

Mutualism in a community context

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Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIETARY CHOICE OF FREE-RANGING JUVENILE OSTRICHES

Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Plant and small-mammal responses to large-herbivore exclusion in an African savanna: five years of the UHURU experiment

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Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on July 2015

Pollen Competition and Sporophyte Fitness in Brassica campestris: Does Intense Pollen Competition Result in Individuals with Better Pollen?

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Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Promises and challenges in insect-plant interactions

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RELAXATION OF INDUCED INDIRECT DEFENSES OF ACACIAS FOLLOWING EXCLUSION OF MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES

scientific article published in 2004

Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis

scientific article published in August 2011

Recovery of African wild dogs suppresses prey but does not trigger a trophic cascade

scientific article published in October 2015

SPATIAL HABITAT HETEROGENEITY INFLUENCES COMPETITION AND COEXISTENCE IN AN AFRICAN ACACIA ANT GUILD

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Skin shedding and tissue regeneration in African spiny mice (Acomys)

scientific article

Spatial pattern enhances ecosystem functioning in an African savanna

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Sterilization and canopy modification of a swollen thorn acacia tree by a plant-ant

scientific article published in Nature

Synergistic effects of fire and elephants on arboreal animals in an African savanna.

scientific article

Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

scientific article

Termites create spatial structure and govern ecosystem function by affecting N2 fixation in an East African savanna

scientific article published in May 2010

Termites, vertebrate herbivores, and the fruiting success of Acacia drepanolobium

scientific article published in February 2010

The Epigenetic Signature of Colonizing New Environments in Anolis Lizards

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

The Epigenetic Signature of Colonizing New Environments in Anolis Lizards

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The complexity and variable nature of ant-Acaciamutualisms in the African savanna

The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree

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The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree

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The influence of spatial heterogeneity on the behavior and growth of two herbivorous stream insects

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Volatiles in the mandibular gland of Tetraponera penzigi: A plant ant of the whistling thorn acacia

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Wars of attrition: colony size determines competitive outcomes in a guild of African acacia ants

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What explains tick proliferation following large-herbivore exclusion?

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

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