Non-pollinating Afrotropical fig wasps affect the fig-pollinator mutualism in Ficus within the subgenus Sycomorus

Oikos

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-14

  Kerdelhué, Carole ^a   Rasplus, Jean Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIG WASP; FIG-POLLINATOR SYSTEM; MUTUALISM;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

AGAONIDAE; FICUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0029750244     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546315     Document Type: Article

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