Competition hierarchy and plant defense in a guild of ants on tropical Passiflora

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-349

  Xu, F F ^a,b   Chen, J ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ant competition; Ant plant mutualism; Competitive hierarchies; EFN plant; Plant defense

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GUILD STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL REGION; VINE;

CHINA;

DOLICHODERUS THORACICUS; FORMICIDAE; PARATRECHINA; PASSIFLORA; PASSIFLORA EDULIS; PASSIFLORA SIAMICA;

EID: 77953871382     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-010-0089-y     Document Type: Article

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