Slippery ant-plants and skilful climbers: Selection and protection of specific ant partners by epicuticular wax blooms in Macaranga (euphorbiaceae)

Oecologia

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-224

  Federle, Walter ^a   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^b   Fiala, Brigitte ^a   Riederer, Markus ^c   Hölldobler, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Ant plant symbiosis; Epicuticular wax crystals; Glaucousness; Macaranga

Indexed keywords

ANT; ECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION; EPICUTICULAR WAX; PHYSICAL BARRIER; SYMBIOSIS;

(SOUTHEAST); ASIA;

CAMPONOTUS; CREMATOGASTER; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MACARANGA;

EID: 0030930617     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050303     Document Type: Article

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