Density-mediated, context-dependent consumer resource interactions between ants and extrafloral nectar plants

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1364-1374

  Chamberlain, Scott A ^a   Holland, J Nathaniel ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Antagonism; Commensalism; Consumer resource interaction; Context dependent; Density mediated; Distraction; Extrafloral nectar (EFN); Mutualism; Pachycereus schottii; Protection; Senita

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTAGONISM; CACTUS; COMMENSALISM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

FORMICIDAE; PACHYCEREUS SCHOTTII;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CACTACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CACTACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 46749156703     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1139.1     Document Type: Article

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