Leaf Toughness Affects Leaf Harvesting by the Leaf Cutter Ant, Atta cephalotes (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1 March 1989

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Biotropica

Vol. 21 (1) , 80
https://doi.org/10.2307/2388446

Abstract

Old leaves were found to be nearly four times tougher than younger leaves within a single tree canopy (Rubiaceae) exploited by leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes...

Keywords

FORMICIDAE
LEAF TOUGHNESS AFFECTS
LEAF HARVESTING
LEAF CUTTER
ATTA CEPHALOTES
CUTTER ANT

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