The termites of the Mayombe Forest Reserve, Congo (Brazzaville): Transect sampling reveals an extremely high diversity of ground-nesting soil feeders

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1239-1246

  Eggleton, P ^a   Davies, R G ^a   Connetable, S ^a   Bignell, D E ^a   Rouland, C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afrotropical; Biodiversity surveys; Sampling; Social insects

Indexed keywords

RAINFOREST; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERMITE; TRANSECT;

CONGO;

APICOTERMITINAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 0037099768     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930110048918     Document Type: Article

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