Monitoring changes in stressed ecosystems using spatial patterns of ant communities

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 201-210

  Nash, Maliha S ^a   Whitford, Walter G ^a   Van Zee, Justin ^b   Havstad, Kris ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM STRESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES;

BIOMARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANT COMMUNITY; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MONITORING; SPATIAL PATTERN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; DORYMYRMEX; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; POGONOMYRMEX; SOLENOPSIS;

EID: 0032104748     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005939303426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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