Vegetation of ant-hills in a mountain grassland: Effects of mound history and of dominant ant species

Plant Ecology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 215-227

  Kovář, Pavel ^a   Kovářová, Marcela ^a   Dostál, Petr ^a   Herben, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ants; Clonal growth form; Lasius flavus; Myrmecochory; Permanent plot; Redundancy analysis; Soil disturbance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; MYRMECOCHORY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; DIANTHUS DELTOIDES; FORMICA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LASIUS FLAVUS; POLYTRICHUM COMMUNE; TETRAMORIUM CAESPITUM; THYMUS PULEGIOIDES; VERONICA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 0035656501     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012648615867     Document Type: Article

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