A role for indirect facilitation in maintaining diversity in a guild of African acacia ants

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1531-1539

  Palmer, Todd M ^a,b,e   Stanton, Maureen L ^a,b   Young, Truman P ^a,b   Lemboi, John S ^b   Goheen, Jacob R ^b,c,f   Pringle, Robert M ^b,d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Acacia ants; Acacia drepanolobium; Ant plant interactions; Competition; Indirect facilitation; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; DOMINANCE; ENTOMOLOGY; FACILITATION; GUILD; HOST PLANT; LEGUME; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

ACACIA; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACACIA; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84880537055     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1873.1     Document Type: Article

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