Drought stress drives intraspecific choice of food plants by Atta leaf-cutting ants

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-215

  Ribeiro Neto, José Domingos ^a   Pinho, Bruno Ximenes ^a   Meyer, Sebastian Tobias ^b,c   Wirth, Rainer ^b   Leal, Inara Roberta ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Atta cephalotes; Atta sexdens; Attini; Edge effects; Foraging preference; Formicidae; Herbivory; Hymenoptera; Plant stress hypothesis; Plant vigour hypothesis; Water stress

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOASSAY; COLONY; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT STRESS; EDGE EFFECT; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SELECTION; FUNGUS; HERBIVORE; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; SYMBIOSIS; WATER STRESS;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

ANACARDIACEAE; ATTA; ATTA CEPHALOTES; ATTA SEXDENS; ATTINI; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; CLUSIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HYMENOPTERA; LAURACEAE; LECYTHIDACEAE; LECYTHIS; LICANIA TOMENTOSA; MELASTOMATACEAE; MICONIA PRASINA; OCOTEA; TAPIRIRA GUIANENSIS; TOVOMITA;

EID: 84863440004     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2012.01283.x     Document Type: Article

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