Thermal disruption of transitive hierarchies in Mediterranean ant communities

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 363-374

  Cerdá, Xim ^a,b   Retana, Javier ^a   Cros, Sebastià ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

ant; community structure; dominance hierarchy; Mediterranean climate; temperature

Indexed keywords

ANT COMMUNITY; DOMINANCE HIERARCHY; THERMAL TOLERANCE; TRANSITIVE HIERARCHY;

SPAIN;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030619981     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/5982     Document Type: Article

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