Testing resource-based models of patchiness in four Neotropical litter ant assemblages

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 443-454

  Kaspari, Michael ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITTER; PATCHINESS;

COSTA RICA; PANAMA;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030304535     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546338     Document Type: Article

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