Studies of a South East Asian ant-plant association: protection of Macaranga trees by Crematogaster borneensis

Oecologia

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 463-470

  Fiala, Brigitte ^a   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^a   Pong, Tho Yow ^b   Helbig, Andreas J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Crematogaster borneensis; Macaranga; Myrmecophytes; Protection

Indexed keywords

ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM; MUTUALISM;

MALAYSIA;

CREMATOGASTER BORNEENSIS; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MACARANGA; MACARANGA HOSEI; MACARANGA HYPOLEUCA; MACARANGA TRILOBA;

EID: 0024929282     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00378662     Document Type: Article

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