Maintaining an ant-plant symbiosis: Secondary polygyny in the Macaranga triloba-crematogaster sp. association

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 408-411

  Feldhaar, H ^a   Fiala, B ^b   Bin Hashim, Rosli ^c   Maschwitz, U ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; TROPICS;

EID: 0033774840     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050751     Document Type: Article

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