A new plant-animal mutualism involving a plant with sticky leaves and a resident hemipteran insect

Oecologia

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 478-481

  Ellis, A G ^a   Midgley, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carnivorous plant; Hemipterans; Roridula gorgonias

Indexed keywords

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; MUTUALISM;

HEMIPTERA; PAMERIDEA RORIDULAE; RORIDULA GORGONIAS; RORIDULACEAE;

EID: 0030442392     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00329705     Document Type: Article

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