The importance of petiole structure on inhabitability by ants in Piper sect. Macrostachys (Piperaceae)

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-191

  Tepe, Eric J ^a   Vincent, Michael A ^a   Watson, Linda E ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant mutualisms; Domatia; Myrmecophytes; Pearl bodies

Indexed keywords

ANT; HABITAT QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; PIPERACEAE;

EID: 33846653218     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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