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Ant Lifestyles (?)

 * Fungus growing ants

Behavior

 * Foraging
 * Group Foraging
 * Foraging Strategies by Colony Size
 * Foraging behaviors in Poneroids and Ectatomminae
 * Tandem Running
 * Foraging Theory
 * Nest Building
 * Nestmate Recognition
 * Trophallaxis (also topic under Feeding in Ants, Diet(?))       P

Ant-Plant Relationships
(a tip of the hat to The Ants Chapter 14) for the following topic headings...
 * Ants protect plants
 * Plants shelter ants: Myrmecophytes
 * Ant gardens and Epiphyte and Ant Garden Studies
 * Bromeliads
 * Plants feed the ants: food bodies
 * Plants feed ants: Extrafloral Nectaries
 * Ants feed plants: Myrmecotrophy
 * Ants disperse plants: Myrmecochory
 * Ants pollinate flowers (sparingly)
 * Ants prune and weed

There was an existing starter page on this topic: Ants and Plants

Diversity and Community

 * Ant Communities
 * Biogeography and Phylogeography
 * Urban Ant Ecology
 * ant diversity
 * Ant Diversity Studies 2015
 * Ant Diversity Studies 2016
 * Ant Diversity Studies 2017
 * Ant Diversity Studies 2018

Endosymbionts and Endoparasites
Ants can be hosts to a variety of organisms that can live within their bodies. Depending on the organism, these can be symbiotic or parasitic interactions. Their influence may be minor and seemingly inconsequential. In other cases their presence alters the ants's morphology, behavior or metabolism and may even result in the individual's death.


 * Microsporidia
 * nematodes (Gösswald, 1938b)
 * termatodes (Hohorst and Lämmler, 1962; Schneider and Hohorst, 1971)
 * cestodes (Muir, 1954; Plateaux, 1972; Buschinger, 1973b).

Ants and Bacteria

 * Wolbachia
 * Spiroplasma
 * Entomoplasma

Fungi

 * Fungi
 * Entomopathogenic fungi Cordyceps and Ophiocordyceps

Mutualisms
overlaps with Myrmecophiles and Myrmecophytes

Myrmecophily
Myrmecophiles

Both of the linked pages have topics and links under their respective headings

Behavior; species interactions and Mutalisms overlap this general topic

Other Associates

 * Fungi

Trophic Strategies

 * Gardeners-Fungus Growing / Attines
 * Honeydew Gatherers
 * Mushroom Harvesting / Euprenolepis procera
 * Nomadic Hunters / Army Ants
 * Seed Harvesting

Evolution

 * Ant Wings ++
 * Social Immunity and Disease Resistance
 * Fossil Ant Publications

Evolution Branch

 * Using ants to study phenotypic plasticity - Dinoponera quadriceps
 * Ants, Castes and Evolution
 * Ant Genomes
 * Sex Ratios

Invasive Ants
The linked page has an introduction and links to specific species.

Life History

 * Ant Nests / Nesting Biology

Morphology

 * Ant Wings ++

Studying Ants

 * Studying Ants

Studying-Ants branch
++ = topics that are listed under multiple headings
 * Solenopsis invicta publications
 * Oecophylla publications
 * Linepithema humile Studies