Associations between anurans and ants in a West African savanna (Anura: Microhylidae, Hyperoliidae, and Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 178-183

  Rödel, Mark Oliver ^a   Braun, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ants; Anurans; Associations; Chemical defense; Kassina; Megaponera; Paltothyreus; Phrynomantis; Savanna habitat

Indexed keywords

ANT; FROG; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SAVANNA;

(WEST); AFRICA;

ANURA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; HYPEROLIIDAE; KASSINA; KASSINA FUSCA; MEGAPONERA; MEGAPONERA FOETENS; MICROHYLIDAE; PALTOTHYREUS; PALTOTHYREUS TARSATUS; PHRYNOMANTIS; PHRYNOMANTIS MICROPS;

EID: 0344604490     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00128.x     Document Type: Article

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