ABSTRACT
Competition has been considered an important organizing force in structuring certain communities, and particularly, ant communities. However, it is often difficult to determine the intensity and pathways of competition in the field, as community-wide manipulation experiments are difficult to design and interpret. Few test procedures in the literature examine the roles of behavioral processes in community processes (Fowler 1988a; Phillips et al. 1986; Jones and Phillips 1987). For ants, the role of nutritional ecology coincides with behavior, and especially recruitment processes, to further define community structure (Fowler et al. 1988).
