Public goods, public services and by-product mutualism in an ant-fern symbiosis

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1279-1286

  Fayle, Tom M ^a,b   Edwards, David P ^d   Turner, Edgar C ^a,b   Dumbrell, Alex J ^e   Eggleton, Paul ^c   Foster, William A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; EPIPHYTE; FERN; MUTUALISM; PHYTOMASS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PUBLIC SERVICE; RAINFOREST;

BORNEO;

ASPLENIUM; ASPLENIUM NIDUS; AVES; FILICOPHYTA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84863857799     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20062.x     Document Type: Article

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