Enemies of herbivores can shape plant traits: Selection in a facultative ant-plant mutualism

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 192-205

  Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant; Bucculatrix thurberiella; Forelius pruinosus; Gossypium thurberi; Indirect effect; Mutualism; Plant defense

Indexed keywords

ANT; HERBIVORY; MUTUALISM; PARASITOID; PLANT DEFENSE; PREDATOR;

ACACIA; BUCCULATRIX; FORELIUS; FORELIUS PRUINOSUS; FORMICIDAE; GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM THURBERI;

EID: 1342290120     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0625     Document Type: Article

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