The disruption of an ant-aphid mutualism increases the effects of birds on pine herbivores

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1805-1815

  Mooney, Kailen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant aphid mutualism; Canopy arthropod community; Cinara; Emergent multiple predator effect; Essigella; Indirect effect; Insect community ecology; Intraguild predation; Mutualism; Pinus ponderosa; Schizolachnus; Trait mediated indirect interaction

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; ARTHROPOD; BIRD; CANOPY; CONIFEROUS TREE; HERBIVORE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; FORMICA PODZOLICA; FORMICIDAE; PARIDAE; PINUS PONDEROSA; SITTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746506598     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1805:TDOAAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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