Botanical Literature Details

• Author(s)

  Fischer, R. C., Wameck, W., Richter, A., Mayer, V.

• Article or Chapter Title

  Do ants feed plants? A 15N labelling study of nitrogen fluxes from ants to plants in the mutualism of Pheidole and Piper.

• Year

  2003

• Journal or Book

  Journal of Ecology. London 91(1): 126-134

• Notes

  KEYWORDS = Pheidole, Piper, ant-plant interaction, myrmecophytism, nutrient provisioning, stable isotope, trophallaxis, Costa Rica, Piperaceae