Parasites of mutualisms

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 529-546

  Yu, Douglas W ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant plant; Cooperation; Dispersal; Ficus; Metapopulation; Mutualism; Myrmecophyte; Parasite; Pollination; Spatial ecology; Species coexistence; Yucca

Indexed keywords

AGAONIDAE; FORMICIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; TEGETICULA YUCCASELLA; VESPIDAE; YUCCA;

EID: 0034958474     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2000.0514     Document Type: Article

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