Ant-hemipteran trophobioses in a Bornean rainforest - Diversity, specificity and monopolisation

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-203

  Bluthgen N ^a   Mezger, D ^a   Linsenmair, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formicidae; Hemiptera; Mutualism; Tritrophic interaction networks; Tropical rainforests

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUTUALISM; PLANT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION; WORKER CASTE;

ASIA; BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

APHIS GOSSYPII; ASTERACEAE; CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; COREIDAE; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; DELPHACIDAE; DINOCHLOA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; POACEAE;

EID: 33745153096     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-005-0858-1     Document Type: Article

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