Do tenants always pay their rent? The Asian ant-plant Pometia pinnata (Sapindaceae) and its leaf domatia provide free access to generalist ants

Asian Myrmecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-32

  Moog, Joachim ^a   Atzinger, Katja ^a   Hashim, Rosli ^b   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Conditional outcome; Leaf domatia; Lepisanthes; Malaysia; Myrmecophyte; Pometia; Protection mutualism; Se asia

Indexed keywords

COCCOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; LEPISANTHES; POMETIA; SAPINDACEAE;

EID: 84866290849     PISSN: 19851944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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