Ants provide nutritional and defensive benefits to the carnivorous plant Sarracenia minor

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-192

  Moon, Daniel C ^a   Rossi, Anthony M ^a   Depaz, Jacqueline ^a   McKelvey, Lindsey ^a   Elias, Sheryl ^a   Wheeler, Emily ^a   Moon, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant associations; Carnivory; Exyra semicrocea; Indirect defense; Pitcher plant

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANT; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CARNIVORY; COTTON; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; MOTH; NEST SITE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLYMER; PREY CAPTURE; REFUGE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; SARRACENIACEAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; MOTHS; NITROGEN; SARRACENIACEAE;

FORMICIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SARRACENIA MINOR; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 77955772504     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1670-9     Document Type: Article

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