Abiotic influences on the behaviour of rodents, ants, and plants affect an ant-seed mutualism

Ecoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-81

  Ness, Joshua H ^a   Bressmer, Kacie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Desert; Dispersal; Foraging; Harvester ant; Moon; Myrmecochory; Seed predation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

MUTUALISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL;

DATURA WRIGHTII; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 16244400130     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-12-1-76.1     Document Type: Article

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