Plants feed ants: Food bodies of myrmecophytic Piper and their significance for the interaction with Pheidole bicornis ants

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 186-192

  Fischer, Renate C ^a   Richter, Andreas ^a   Wanek, Wolfgang ^a   Mayer, Veronika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ant plant mutualism; Carbon 13 stable isotopes; Myrmecophyte; Nitrogen 15 stable isotopes; Nutrient provisioning

Indexed keywords

ANT; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; NUTRIENT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MYRMICINAE; PHEIDOLE BICORNIS; PIPER FIMBRIULATUM; PIPERACEAE;

EID: 0036931185     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1000-y     Document Type: Article

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