Non-additive benefit or cost? Disentangling the indirect effects that occur when plants bearing extrafloral nectaries and honeydew-producing insects share exotic ant mutualists

Annals of Botany

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1295-1307

  Savage, Amy M ^a,b   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^b,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive effects; Anoplolepis gracilipes; community context; EFN; extrafloral nectar; honeydew; indirect effects; invasive ants; Morinda citrifolia; mutualism; non additive benefit; non additive cost; simultaneous interactions

Indexed keywords

ANT; HERBIVORY; HONEYDEW; HOST PLANT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; NECTARY;

ADDITIVE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CONTEXT; ECOSYSTEM; EFN; EXTRAFLORAL NECTAR; HONEYDEW; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INSECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE ANTS; MORINDA; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; NECTAR; NON-ADDITIVE BENEFIT; NON-ADDITIVE COST; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMOA; SECRETION (PROCESS); SIMULTANEOUS INTERACTIONS; SYMBIOSIS;

ADDITIVE EFFECTS; ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; COMMUNITY CONTEXT; EFN; EXTRAFLORAL NECTAR; HONEYDEW; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INVASIVE ANTS; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; MUTUALISM; NON-ADDITIVE BENEFIT; NON-ADDITIVE COST; SIMULTANEOUS INTERACTIONS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORINDA; PLANT NECTAR; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMOA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA;

EID: 84878285251     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct082     Document Type: Article

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