Carbon and nitrogen isotopes trace nutrient exchange in an ant-plant mutualism

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 582-586

  Sagers, C L ^a   Ginger, S M ^a,b   Evans, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azteca; Cecropia peltata; Mutualism; Stable isotopes; Symbiosis; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

ANT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; TRACE ELEMENT;

AZTECA; CECROPIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0033919063     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008863     Document Type: Article

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