Ants and habitat specificity in aphids

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-31

  Hopkins, G W ^a   Thacker, J I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant attendance; Breckland; Mutualism; Rarity

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST USE; MUTUALISM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS; APHIS SERPYLLI; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LASIUS; LASIUS FULIGINOSUS; LASIUS NIGER; PAPILIONOIDEA; QUERCUS; STOMAPHIS QUERCUS; THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0033510857     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009626405307     Document Type: Article

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