Ant communities in flooded and unflooded riparian forest of the middle Rio Grande

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 278-286

  Milford, Elizabeth Remington ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CREMATOGASTER MORMONUM; FORMICA PALLIDEFULVA; LASIUS PALLITARSIS; PHEIDOLE PINEALIS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; TAPINOMA SESSILE;

EID: 0032871454     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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