Leaf nutrient content and host plant selection by leaf-cutter ants, Atta laevigata, in a Neotropical savanna

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-54

  Mundim, Fabiane M ^a   Costa, Alan N ^a   Vasconcelos, Heraldo L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ant plant interactions; Attini; Brazil; Cerrado; Formicidae; Herbivory; Hymenoptera; Leaf selection; Nitrogen; Plant palatability

Indexed keywords

ANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; HARVESTING; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LEAF; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; SAVANNA;

BRAZIL; CERRADO; SOUTH AMERICA;

ATTA; ATTA LAEVIGATA; ATTINI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 57349166568     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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