Behavioural and physiological traits to thermal stress tolerance in two Spanish desert ants

Etologia

Volumn 9, Issue , 2001, Pages 15-27

  Cerdá, Xim ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ants; Cataglyphis; Mediterranean communities; Polymorphism; Thermal stress; Thermophilia

Indexed keywords

CATAGLYPHIS ROSENHAUERI; CATAGLYPHIS VELOX;

EID: 0035743019     PISSN: 11303204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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