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Plants in Your Ants: Using Ant Mounds to Test Basic Ecological Principles

Published:2010-03-01 Issue:3 Volume:72 Page:172-175
ISSN:0002-7685
Container-title:The American Biology Teacher
language:en
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Author:

Zettler Jennifer A.¹,Collier Alexander¹,Leidersdorf Bil²,Patrick Sanou Missa³

Affiliation:

1. JENNIFER A. ZETTLER and ALEXANDER COLLIER are Associate Professors of Biology, at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA 31419

2. BIL LEIDERSDORF is a laboratory technician, at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA 31419

3. MISSA PATRICK SANOU is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Abstract

Urban students often have limited access to field sites for ecological studies. Ubiquitous ants and their mounds can be used to study and test ecology-based questions. We describe how soil collected from ant mounds can be used to investigate how biotic factors (ants) can affect abiotic factors in the soil that can, in turn, influence plant growth.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Education

Link

http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/72/3/172/55541/abt_2010_72_3_8.pdf

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