Effects of food rewards offered by ant-plant Macaranga on the colony size of ants

Ecological Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 775-786

  Itino, Takao ^a   Itioka, Takao ^b   Hatada, Aya ^c   Hamid, Abang Abdul ^d  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ant plant homopteran symbiotic mutualism; Coccids; Food body; Ontogenetic change in ant defense; Population regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242655118     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00433.x     Document Type: Article

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