"Devil's Gardens" in the Ecuadorian Amazon - Association of the allelopathic tree Duroia hirsuta (Rubiaceae) and its "gentle" ants

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 293-301

  Pfannes, Kristina R ^a   Baier, Angela C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Ant plant interaction; Duroia hirsuta; Ecuadorian Amazon; Mutualism; Myrmecophyte; Myrmelachista sp; Scale insects

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RUBIACEAE; TREE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; RUBIACEAE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREES;

EID: 0036490531     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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