Ant community structure: Effects of predatory ant lions

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 630-638

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance: ant; Ant lion; Behavior; Community; Distribution; Foraging; Predation; Rarefaction

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; MYRMELEONTIDAE; NEUROPTERA; PANTHERA LEO; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; HYMENOPTERA;

ANT; ANT-LION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PREDATION;

USA, OKLAHOMA;

EID: 0030418678     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265636     Document Type: Article

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