Are all ant mosaics caused by competition?

Oecologia

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 606-611

  Ribas, Carla R ^a   Schoereder, José H ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community structure; Formicidae; Null models; Spatial distribution; Species co occurrence

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036944411     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0912-x     Document Type: Article

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