Territory defense by the ant Azteca trigona: maintenance of an arboreal ant mosaic

Oecologia

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 202-208

  Adams, Eldridge S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Azteca; Pheromones; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANT; MANGROVE FOREST; TERRITORIALITY;

PANAMA;

AZTECA INSTABILIS; AZTECA TRIGONA; AZTECA VELOX; CREMATOGASTER BREVISPINOSA;

EID: 0028160096     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00323150     Document Type: Article

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