Relationship between plant size and ant associates in two Amazonian ant-plants

Biotropica

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 100-111

  Vasconcelos, Heraldo L ^a   Davidson, Diane W ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant; Ants; Azteca; Colonization; Competition; Crematogaster; Melastomataceae; Myrmecophyte; N isotope; Pheidole

Indexed keywords

ANT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; AZTECA; CREMATOGASTER LAEVIS; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA; MAIETA GUIANENSIS; MELASTOMATACEAE; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE MINUTULA; TOCOCA; TOCOCA BULLIFERA;

EID: 0034066478     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2000.tb00452.x     Document Type: Article

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