You get what you pay for: Reward-specific trade-offs among direct and ant-mediated defences in plants

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 628-630

  Koricheva, Julia ^a   Romero, Gustavo Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Direct defences; Herbivores; Indirect defences; Meta analysis; Mutualistic ants; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANT; META-ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TRADE-OFF;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84864452003     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0271     Document Type: Article

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