Weighing defensive and nutritive roles of ant mutualists across a tropical altitudinal gradient

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-350

  Rodríguez Castañeda, Genoveva ^a   Forkner, Rebecca E ^b   Tepe, Eric J ^c,d   Gentry, Grant L ^e   Dyer, Lee A ^f  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevation; Mutualistic ants; Myrmecophytes; Nutrient procurement; Plant defense

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ANT; ANTAGONISM; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTIC FACTOR; COLONY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; MONTANE FOREST; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT DEFENSE; SHRUB;

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; MYRMICINAE; PHEIDOLE; PIPERACEAE;

EID: 79955093223     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00700.x     Document Type: Article

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