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Intra- and interspecific competition for mutalists: ants as a limited and limiting resource for aphids

Authors: Cushman, J. H.; Addicott, J. F.
Year: 1989
Journal: Oecologia, Vol. 79, pp. 315-321
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1007/bf00384310
Keywords: APHIS VARIANS, COMPETITION, ENTOMOLOGY, FORMICA, HYMENOPTERA, MUTUALISM, PLANT-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS, RMBL

Abstract

It is shown that ants are a Limited and Limiting resource for a tended aphid species and that fireweed aphids compete with intra-and interspecific aphid neighbors for the services of ant mutualists.

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