The size-grain hypothesis: A phylogenetic and field test

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 475-481

  Parr, Z J E ^a   Parr, C L ^b   Chown, S L ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ants; Body size; Habitat rugosity; Phylogeny; Scaling; Size grain hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANT;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0043074838     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2003.00529.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Andersen, A.N. (1983) Species diversity and temporal distribution of ants in the semi-arid mallee region of northwestern Victoria. Australian Journal of Ecology, 8, 127-137.
2. Andersen, A.N. & Yen, A.L. (1985) Immediate effects of fire on ants in the semi-arid mallee region of north-western Victoria. Australian Journal of Ecology, 10, 25-30.
3. Areola, O. (1996) Soils. The Physical Geography of Africa (ed. by W. M. Adams, A. S. Goudie and A. R. Orme), pp. 134-147. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
4. Bestelmeyer, B.T. & Wiens, J.A. (1996) The effects of land use on the structure of ground-foraging ant communities in the Argentine Chaco. Ecological Applications, 6, 1225-1240.
5. Bolton, B. (1994) Identification Guide to Ant Genera of the World. Harvard University Press, Harvard, Massachusetts.
6. Burd, M. (2000) Body size affects locomotion and load carriage in the highly polymorphic leaf-cutting ants Atta columbica and Atta cephalotes. Behavioural Ecology, 11, 125-131.
7. Cerdá, X. & Retana, J. (1997) Links between worker polymorphism and thermal biology in a thermophilic ant species. Oikos, 78, 467-474.
8. Clarke, K.R. & Gorley, R.N. (2001) PRIMER v5: User Manual/Tutorial. PRIMER-E Ltd, Plymouth, U.K.
9. Clarke, K.R. & Warwick, R.M. (1994) Change in Marine Communities: an Approach to Statistical Analysis and Interpretation. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, U.K.
10. Crist, T.O. & Wiens, J.A. (1994) Scale effects of vegetation on forager movement and seed harvesting by ants. Oikos, 69, 37-46.
11. Enslin, B.W., Potgieter, A.L.F., Biggs, H.C. & Biggs, R. (2000) Long term effects of fire frequency and season on the woody vegetation dynamics of the Sclerocarya birrea/Acacia nigrescens savanna of the Kruger National Park. Koedoe, 43, 27-37.
12. Espadaler, X.E. & Gómez, C. (2001) Formicine ants comply with the size-grain hypothesis. Functional Ecology, 15, 136-139.
13. Feener, D.H., Lighton, J.R.B. & Bartholomew, G.A. (1988) Curvilinear allometry, energetics and foraging ecology: a comparison of leaf-cutting ants and army ants. Functional Ecology, 14, 129-134.
14. Garland, T., Jr, Midford, P.E. & Ives, A.R. (1999) An introduction to phylogenetically based statistical methods, with a new method for confidence intervals on ancestral states. American Zoologist, 39, 374-388.
15. Grafen, A. (1989) The phylogenetic regression. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences, 326, 119-157.
16. Greenslade, P.J.M. (1973) Sampling ants with pitfall traps: digging-in effects. Insectes Sociaux, 20, 343-353.
17. Greenslade, P.J.M. (1997) Short term effects of a prescribed burn on invertebrates in grassy woodland in south-eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 56, 305-312.
18. Greenslade, P.J.M. & Greenslade, P. (1977) Some effects of vegetation cover and disturbance on a tropical ant fauna. Insectes Sociaux, 24, 163-182.
19. Grimaldi, D. & Agosti, D. (2000) A formicine in New Jersey Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and early evolution of the ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97, 13678-13683.
20. Harvey, P.H. & Pagel, M.D. (1991) The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
21. Kaspari, M. & Weiser, M.D. (1999) The size-grain hypothesis and interspecific scaling in ants. Functional Ecology, 13, 530-538.
22. Morehead, S.A. & Feener, D.H. (1998) Foraging behaviour and morphology: seed selection in the harvester ant genus, Pogonomyrmex. Oecologia, 114, 548-555.
23. Nee, S., Read, A.F., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Harvey, P.H. (1991) The relationship between abundance and body size in British birds. Nature, 351, 312-313.
24. Nielsen, M.G., Jensen, T.F. & Holm-Jensen, I. (1982) Effect of load carriage on the respiratory metabolism of running worker ants of Camponotus herculeanus (Formicidae). Oikos, 39, 137-139.
25. Pagel, M.D. (1992) A method for the analysis of comparative data. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 156, 431-441.
26. Parr, C.L. & Chown, S.L. (2001) Inventory and bioindicator sampling: testing pitfall and winkler methods with ants in a South African savanna. Journal of Insect Conservation, 5, 27-36.
27. Prothero, J. (1986) Methodological aspects of scaling in biology. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 118, 259-286.
28. Sokal, R.R. & Rohlf, F.J. (1995) Biometry, 3rd edn. Freeman, New York.
29. Trollope, W.S.W., Potgieter, A.L.F., Biggs, H.C. & Trollope, L.A. (1998) Report on the Experimental Burn Plots (EBP) trial in the major vegetation types of the Kruger National Park. Report no. 9. Unpublished, Skukuza.
30. Yanoviak, S.P. & Kaspari, M. (2000) Community structure and the habitat template: ants in the tropical forest canopy and litter. Oikos, 89, 259-266.