Assembly rules for New England ant assemblages

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 591-599

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Ellison, Aaron M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ASSEMBLY RULE; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

UNITED STATES;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036949646     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.11734.x     Document Type: Article

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