Setting the trap: Cleaning behaviour of Camponotus schmitzi ants increases long-term capture efficiency of their pitcher plant host, Nepenthes bicalcarata

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-19

  Thornham, Daniel G ^a   Smith, Joanna M ^b   Ulmar Grafe, T ^c   Federle, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Carnivorous plants; Cleaning behaviour; Mutualism; Myrmecotrophy

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; DICOTYLEDON; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HOST PLANT; MUTUALISM; NEST SITE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE;

BORNEO;

CAMPONOTUS SCHMITZI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES BICALCARATA; OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 84856012275     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01937.x     Document Type: Article

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