A Novel Type of Nutritional Ant-Plant Interaction: Ant Partners of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants Prevent Nutrient Export by Dipteran Pitcher Infauna

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Scharmann, Mathias ^a,b,e   Thornham, Daniel G ^b,c   Grafe, T Ulmar ^d   Federle, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANT; ARTICLE; CAMPONOTUS SCHMITZI; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD WEB; LEAF NITROGEN CONTENT; NECTAR; NEPENTHES BICALCARATA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; PREDATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BORNEO; CARNIVORY; FOOD; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT NECTAR; PLANTS;

EID: 84878082378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063556     Document Type: Article

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