Ant predation on an invasive herbivore: Can an extrafloral nectar-producing plant provide associational resistance to Opuntia individuals?

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2261-2273

  Jezorek, Heather ^a   Stiling, Peter ^a   Carpenter, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Associational resistance; Cacti; Cactoblastis cactorum; Extra floral nectar; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; CACTUS; COEVOLUTION; CROP DAMAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEGUME; MOTH; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION; SURVEY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; CACTOBLASTIS CACTORUM; CHAMAECRISTA; CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA; FORMICIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA HUMIFUSA; OPUNTIA STRICTA;

EID: 80052822419     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-0038-3     Document Type: Article

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