Biodiversity consequences of predation and host plant hybridization on an aphid-ant mutualism

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 440-452

  Wimp, G M ^a   Whitham, T G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphid ant mutualism; Biodiversity; Chaitophorus populicola; Community structure; Formica propinqua; Herbivory; Host plant quality; Hybridization; Populus fremontii P. angustifolia; Predation

Indexed keywords

BACKCROSSING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COTTONWOOD; ECOLOGY; MUTUALISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL AREA; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MUTUALISM; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CHAITOPHORUS POPULICOLA;

EID: 0035125302     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[0440:BCOPAH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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