Positive effects of shade and shelter construction by ants on leafhopper-ant mutualism

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1471-1476

  Moya Raygoza, Gustavo ^a   Larsen, Kirk J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant; Leafhoppers; Mutualism; Shade; Shelter

Indexed keywords

ANT; MUTUALISM; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; POPULATION SIZE; SHELTER; WASP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; HEMIPTERA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HEMIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; NYMPH; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

CICADELLIDAE; DALBULUS QUINQUENOTATUS; DRYINIDAE; FORMICIDAE; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; TRIPSACUM; TRIPSACUM DACTYLOIDES;

EID: 58149268915     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-37.6.1471     Document Type: Article

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