The ecology of slavemaking ants and their hosts in north temperate forests

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 148-163

  Herbers, Joan M ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Formicidae; Formicoxenini; Host parasite ecology; Leptothorax longispinosus; North temperate forests; Protomognathus americanus; Slavemaking ants; Social parasites

Indexed keywords

ANT; DEMOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NEST SITE; SOCIAL PARASITISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

(EAST); UNITED STATES;

FORMICIDAE; FORMICOXENINI; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOTHORAX AMBIGUUS; LEPTOTHORAX CURVISPINOSUS; LEPTOTHORAX LONGISPINOSUS; PROTOMOGNATHUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0036144698     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0148:TEOSAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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