Microgeographic and Vertical Distribution of Acromyrmex landolti (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Nests in a Neotropical Savanna

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 636-641

  Lapointe, Stephen L ^a,b   Serrano, Miguel S ^a,c   Jones, Peter G ^a  

^a Ctro Internacional de Agric Trop   (Colombia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Attini; Colombia; Distribution; Leafcutter ants; Nest phenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001552265     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.3.636     Document Type: Article

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