Pruning of host plant neighbours as defence against enemy ant invasions: Crematogaster ant partners of Macaranga protected by "wax barriers" prune less than their congeners

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 264-270

  Federle, Walter ^a   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^b   Hölldobler, Bert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Ant competition; Ant plant; Mutualism; Myrmecophytism

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; ANT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; HOST PLANT; MYRMECOPHYTE; PRUNING;

ANIMALIA; CREMATOGASTER; DECACREMA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MACARANGA; TECHNOMYRMEX;

EID: 0036941351     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0947-z     Document Type: Article

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