Ants as indicators of exposure to environmental stressors in North American desert grasslands

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-171

  Whitford, Walter G ^a   Van Zee, Justin ^b   Nash, Maliha S ^a   Smith, Walter E ^b   Herrick, Jeffery E ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental stressors; Exposure indicators

Indexed keywords

DESERT GRASSLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; EXPOSURE INDICATORS;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANT; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GRASSLAND;

ANT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; GRASS; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

BOS TAURUS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA; POGONOMYRMEX; POPULUS; RIPARIA; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 0033514087     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005858918860     Document Type: Article

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