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Non-additive benefit or cost? Disentangling the indirect effects that occur when
plants bearing extrafloral nectaries and honeydew-producing insects share exotic
ant mutualists
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Savage AM
; Rudgers JA
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2013[Jun]; 111
(6
): 1295-307
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In complex communities, organisms often form mutualisms with
multiple different partners simultaneously. Non-additive effects may emerge among
species linked by these positive interactions. Ants commonly participate in
mutualisms with both honeydew-producing insects (HPI) and their extrafloral
nectary (EFN)-bearing host plants. Consequently, HPI and EFN-bearing plants may
experience non-additive benefits or costs when these groups co-occur. The
outcomes of these interactions are likely to be influenced by variation in
preferences among ants for honeydew vs. nectar. In this study, a test was made
for non-additive effects on HPI and EFN-bearing plants resulting from sharing
exotic ant guards. Preferences of the dominant exotic ant species for nectar vs.
honeydew resources were also examined. METHODS: Ant access, HPI and nectar
availability were manipulated on the EFN-bearing shrub, Morinda citrifolia, and
ant and HPI abundances, herbivory and plant growth were assessed. Ant-tending
behaviours toward HPI across an experimental gradient of nectar availability were
also tracked in order to investigate mechanisms underlying ant responses. KEY
RESULTS: The dominant ant species, Anoplolepis gracilipes, differed from less
invasive ants in response to multiple mutualists, with reductions in plot-wide
abundances when nectar was reduced, but no response to HPI reduction. Conversely,
at sites where A. gracilipes was absent or rare, abundances of less invasive ants
increased when nectar was reduced, but declined when HPI were reduced.
Non-additive benefits were found at sites dominated by A. gracilipes, but only
for M. citrifolia plants. Responses of HPI at these sites supported predictions
of the non-additive cost model. Interestingly, the opposite non-additive patterns
emerged at sites dominated by other ants. CONCLUSIONS: It was demonstrated that
strong non-additive benefits and costs can both occur when a plant and herbivore
share mutualist partners. These findings suggest that broadening the community
context of mutualism studies can reveal important non-additive effects and
increase understanding of the dynamics of species interactions.