Spatial and temporal variations in the activity patterns of Mediterranean ant communities

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-278

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

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity rhythm; Ant; Environmental factors; Temperature; Temporal partitioning

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYNENOPTERA;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ART COMMUNITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS;

MEDITERRANEAN;

EID: 0031393841     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682405     Document Type: Article

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