Geographical variation in an ant-plant interaction correlates with domatia occupancy, local ant diversity, and interlopers

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 538-551

  Shenoy, Megha ^a   Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Arboreal earthworms; Dolichoderinae; Humboldtia brunonis; Perionyx pullus; Self opening slit; Technomyrmex albipes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; EARTHWORM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEGUME; MORPHOMETRY; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

DOLICHODERINAE; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HUMBOLDTIA BRUNONIS; INVERTEBRATA; PERIONYX; PULLUS; TECHNOMYRMEX ALBIPES;

EID: 77954375372     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01459.x     Document Type: Article

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