'Devil's gardens' bedevilled by ants

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7058, 2005, Pages 495-496

  Frederickson, Megan E ^a   Greene, Michael J ^b   Gordon, Deborah M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; RAIN;

AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST; ANT SPECIES;

HERBICIDES;

FORMIC ACID; HERBICIDE; PLANT TOXIN; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POISON; RAIN;

ANT; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; HERBICIDE;

ALLELOPATHY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SYMBIOSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANT; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; HERBICIDES; RAIN;

FORMICIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; FORMIC ACIDS; HERBICIDES; POISONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 25644449641     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/437495a     Document Type: Article

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