Density-dependent outcomes in a digestive mutualism between carnivorous Roridula plants and their associated hemipterans

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-120

  Anderson, Bruce ^a,b   Midgley, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cost and benefit; Density dependence; Exploitation; Trade off

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DIGESTION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INSECT; MUTUALISM; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROPTERA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HETEROPTERA; NITROGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

HEMIPTERA; PAMERIDEA; RORIDULA; RORIDULA DENTATA;

EID: 34247364530     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0640-8     Document Type: Article

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