An ant-plant mutualism and its host-specific parasite: Activity rhythms, young leaf patrolling, and effects on herbivores of two specialist plant-ants inhabiting the same myrmecophyte

Oikos

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 130-144

  Gaume, Laurence ^a   McKey, Doyle ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; PARASITISM;

CATAULACUS MCKEYI; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEONARDOXA AFRICANA; PETALOMYRMEX PHYLAX;

EID: 0032997772     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546873     Document Type: Article

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