When trade-offs interact: Balance of terror enforces dominance discovery trade-off in a local ant assemblage

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-64

  Lebrun, Edward G ^a,b   Feener Jr , Donald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Apocephalus; Formicidae; Pheidole; Phoridae; Trait mediated indirect interactions

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; COEXISTENCE; DOMINANCE; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DIPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

APOCEPHALUS; FORMICIDAE; PHEIDOLE; PHORIDAE;

EID: 33845891605     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01173.x     Document Type: Article

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