Context-dependence in an ant-aphid mutualism: Direct effects of tending intensity on aphid performance

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 450-458

  Yoo, Ho Jung S ^a   Holway, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant attendance; Ant: aphid ratio; Conditionality; Hemiptera; Life history parameters; Mutualist; Myrmecophily; Populus fremontii

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANT; APHID; CARBOHYDRATE; COLONY STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HONEYDEW; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHILY; NATURAL ENEMY; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVORSHIP;

APHIDIDAE; CHAITOPHORUS POPULICOLA; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; POPULUS FREMONTII;

EID: 79960334356     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01288.x     Document Type: Article

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