Community interactions between ants and arboreal-nesting termites in New Guinea coconut plantations

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 126-130

  Leponce, M ^a,b   Roisin, Y ^a   Pasteels, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Camponotus; Crematogaster; Inquilinism; Isoptera; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANT; INQUILINISM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; TERMITE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

CAMPONOTUS; CREMATOGASTER IRRITABILIS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; MICROCEROTERMES BIROI; NASUTITERMES PRINCEPS; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0032998755     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050122     Document Type: Article

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