Chemical contents of Macaranga food bodies: Adaptations to their role in ant attraction and nutrition

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-122

  Heil, M ^a   Fiala, B ^a   Kaiser, W ^a   Linsenmair, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Insect nutrition; Mutualism; Myrmecophytism

Indexed keywords

ANT-PLANT RELATIONSHIP; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENCE; ATTRACTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FOOD BODY; NUTRIENT;

EID: 0031888922     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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