Indirect interactions between ant-tended hemipterans, a dominant ant azteca instabilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and shade trees in a tropical agroecosystem

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 734-740

  Livingston, George F ^a   White, Adam M ^b   Kratz, Carley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Biological control; Indirect competition; Mutualism; Scale insects; Shade coffee

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COFFEE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MUTUALISM; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COFFEE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHORBIA; HEMIPTERA; LEGUME; MEXICO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COFFEA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; HEMIPTERA; MEXICO; SYMBIOSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ALCHORNEA LATIFOLIA; AZTECA; AZTECA INSTABILIS; COCCUS VIRIDIS; COFFEA ARABICA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INGA; INGA MICHELIANA;

EID: 46849119812     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[734:IIBAHA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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