Taxonomic level, trophic biology and the regulation of local abundance

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-244

  Kaspari, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biogeography; Climate; Macroecology; New World ants; Productivity; Scale; Taxa; Taxonomy; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; MACROECOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 0034966567     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00214.x     Document Type: Article

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