Interactions between ants, herbivorous insects and bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), a fern with extrafloral nectaries
Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) is a cosmopolitan species of fern which possesses extrafloral nectaries. A survey of the arthropod fauna associated with the plant throughout its range in South Africa identified the most widespread and damaging bracken herbivores and those species most likely to be inf...
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Rhodes University
1989
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002042 |