Morphological characterization of extrafloral nectaries and associated ants in tropical vegetation of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-156

  Aguirre, Armando ^a   Coates, Rosamond ^b   Cumplido Barragán, Gustavo ^c   Campos Villanueva, Alvaro ^b   Díaz Castelazo, Cecilia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ants; Cloud forest; Coastal vegetation; Extrafloral nectaries; Mexico; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; COASTAL ZONE; DICOTYLEDON; EXUDATION; FLOWER; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NECTARY; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POLLINATION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL REGION;

LOS TUXTLAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

ANIMALIA; BIGNONIACEAE; CONVOLVULACEAE; COSTACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; MALPIGHIACEAE; MALVACEAE; PASSIFLORACEAE;

EID: 84875377265     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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