The importance of the encounter rate between ants and herbivores and of ant aggressiveness against herbivores in herbivore exclusion by ants on Vicia angustifolia L. (Leguminosae) with extrafloral nectaries

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-76

  Katayama, Noboru ^a,b   Suzuki, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bodyguard effects; EFNs; Hypera postica; Lasius japonicus; Vetch

Indexed keywords

FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HYPERA POSTICA; LASIUS JAPONICUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); VICIA; VICIA SATIVA SUBSP. NIGRA;

EID: 18044370284     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2005.69     Document Type: Article

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