How plants may benefit from their consumers: Leaf-cutting ants indirectly improve anti-herbivore defenses in Carduus nutans L

Plant Ecology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-38

  Farji Brener, Alejandro G ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acromyrmex lobicornis; Herbivory risk; Induced defenses; Patagonia; Phenotypic plasticity; Refuse dumps

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; HERB; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ACROMYRMEX LOBICORNIS; ATTA; CARDUUS; CARDUUS NUTANS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34848918937     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9246-9     Document Type: Article

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