Selective fern herbivory by leaf-cutter ants of Atta cephalotes (L.) in Brazil

Abstract Although leaf-cutter ants of the genus Atta are polyphagous, they discriminate between food plant species. Ferns represent the second largest group of vascular plants and are especially abundant in tropical forest understories, but seem to be avoided as food plants. We studied the leaf dama...
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Autor*in:

de Paiva Farias, Rafael [verfasserIn]

da Costa, Lucas Erickson Nascimento

Barros, Iva Carneiro Leão

de Oliveira, Antônio Fernando Morais

Mehltreter, Klaus

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2018

Schlagwörter:

Foraging

Herbivores

Phytophagous insects

Plant–insect interactions

Pteridophytes

Anmerkung:

© Botanical Society of Sao Paulo 2018

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Brazilian journal of botany - São Paulo : Springer, 2012, 41(2018), 4 vom: 18. Sept., Seite 923-929

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:41 ; year:2018 ; number:4 ; day:18 ; month:09 ; pages:923-929

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s40415-018-0499-z

Katalog-ID:

SPR03641915X

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