Patterns of nectar secretion in rive nepenthes species from brunei darussalam, northwest borneo, and implications for ant-plant relationships

Flora

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-160

  Merbach, Marlis A ^a   Zizka, Georg ^a   Fiala, Brigitte ^b   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^a   Booth, Webber E ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Carnivory; Extrafloral nectaries; Mutualism; Nepenthes; Pitcher efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANT; NECTAR; NECTARIVORY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

BORNEO; BRUNEI DARUSSALAM;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOSTOMA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MIRABILIS; NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES ALBOMARGINATA; NEPENTHES BICALCARATA; NEPENTHES GRACILIS; NEPENTHES MIRABILIS; NEPENTHES RAFFLESIANA;

EID: 0035031351     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30030-0     Document Type: Article

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