Ant diversity in pitcher-plant bogs of Massachusetts

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 267-284

  Ellison, Aaron M ^a   Farnsworth, Elizabeth J ^a   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; GADUS MORHUA; MYRMICA LOBIFRONS; SARRACENIA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 0036405353     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3858471     Document Type: Article

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