The abundance and biomass of subterranean termites (Isoptera) in a dry evergreen forest of northeast Thailand

Sociobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-52

  Inoue, T ^a,d   Takematsu, Y ^b   Hyodo, F ^a   Sugimoto, A ^a   Yamada, A ^a   Klangkaew, C ^c   Kirtibutr, N ^c   Abe, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d KURDI   (Thailand)

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