The role of resource imbalances in the evolutionary ecology of tropical arboreal ants

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-181

  Davidson, Diane W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant interactions; Canopy samples; Exocrine chemistry; Foraging tempo; Homoptera; Lycaenoid butterflies; Proventriculus; Resource balance model; Symbioses; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; AVES; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0030804714     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0128     Document Type: Article

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