Geographical and seasonal variation in the richness of ant-plant interactions in Mexico

Biotropica

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 190-200

  Rico Gray, Victor ^a   García Franco, José G ^a   Palacios Rios, Mónica ^a   Díaz Castelazo, Cecilia ^a   Parra Tabla, Victor ^b   Navarro, Jorge A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE; RAINFALL; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

LA MANCHA; MEXICO; PUEBLA; SAN BENITO; VERACRUZ; XALAPA; YUCATAN; ZAPOTITLAN;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0032445211     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00054.x     Document Type: Article

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