Ant-fed plants: Comparison between three geophytic myrmecophytes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 433-439

  Solano, Pascal Jean ^a   Dejean, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Ant plant interactions; Mutualism; Myrmecotrophy; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANT; HOST PLANT; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; NITROGEN; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALLOMERUS; BORAGINACEAE; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; CORDIA; CORDIA NODOSA; FORMICIDAE; HIRTELLA; INSECTA; MAIETA; MAIETA GUIANENSIS; MELASTOMATACEAE; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE MINUTULA; PHYSOPHORA;

EID: 10344222152     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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