Behavioral mechanisms underlie an ant-plant mutualism

Oecologia

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-59

  Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a,b   Hodgen, Jillian G ^a   White, J Wilson ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forelius; Gossypium; Trait mediated predation; Tri trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; BUCCULATRICIDAE; BUCCULATRIX; BUCCULATRIX THURBERIELLA; FORELIUS; FORELIUS PRUINOSUS; FORMICIDAE; GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM THURBERI; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 0037357460     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1168-1     Document Type: Article

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