Costs and benefits for phytophagous myrmecophiles: When ants are not always available

Oikos

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 467-478

  Stadler, Bernhard ^a   Fiedler, Konrad ^a   Kawecki, Tadeusz J ^b   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHILY; TRADE-OFF;

APHIDIDAE; COCCOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; LYCAENIDAE; MEMBRACIDAE;

EID: 0035069921     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.920308.x     Document Type: Article

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