Successional response of a tropical forest termite assemblage to experimental habitat perturbation

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 946-962

  Davies, Richard G ^a,b   Eggleton, Paul ^a   Dibog, Luc ^a,c   Lawton, John H ^c   Bignell, David E ^d,e   Brauman, Alain ^f   Hartmann, Christian ^g   Nunes, Lina ^h   Holt, John ⁱ   Rouland, Corinne ^j  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^f Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

^g ORSTOM   (France)

^h Laboratorio Nacional de E   (Portugal)

ⁱ CSIRO   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

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Author keywords

Forest disturbance; Restoration; Succession; Termite diversity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISTURBANCE; SUCCESSION; TERMITE; TROPICAL FOREST;

CAMEROON;

ISOPTERA; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0033394674     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.1999.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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