Use of premontane moist forest and shade coffee agroecosystems by army ants in western Panama

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 192-199

  Roberts, Dina L ^a   Cooper, Robert J ^a   Petit, Lisa J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PLANTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PANAMA;

ECITON BURCHELLI; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LABIDUS PRAEDATOR;

EID: 0034070605     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98522.x     Document Type: Article

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