Diversity, evolutionary specialization and geographic distribution of a mutualistic ant-plant complex: Macaranga and Crematogaster in South East Asia

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 305-331

  Fiala, Brigitte ^a   Jakob, Armin ^b   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^b   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Co evolution; Decacrema; Host specificity; Malesia; Myrmecophyte

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE;

(SOUTHEAST); ASIA;

CREMATOGASTER; HYMENOPTERA; MACARANGA;

EID: 0032954693     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0279     Document Type: Article

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