Local and regional-scale responses of ant diversity to a semiarid biome transition

Ecography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 381-392

  Bestelmeyer, Brandon T ^a,b   Wiens, John A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOME; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 0034772050     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2001.tb00473.x     Document Type: Article

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