Temporal associations in fig-wasp-ant interactions: Diel and phenological patterns

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-61

  Ranganathan, Yuvaraj ^a   Ghara, Mahua ^a   Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Apocrypta; Apocryptophagus; Ficus racemosa; Gallers; Myrmicaria brunnea; Oecophylla smaragdina; Parasitoids; Predatory ants; Resource partitioning; Resource pulse; Technomyrmex albipes; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANT; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIEL VARIATION; MUTUALISM; NICHE PARTITIONING; OVIPOSITION; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; ANIMALIA; APOCRYPTA; APOCRYPTOPHAGUS; CHALCIDOIDEA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); FICUS RACEMOSA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MORACEAE; MYRMICARIA BRUNNEA; OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA; TECHNOMYRMEX ALBIPES;

EID: 77956248365     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01038.x     Document Type: Article

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