The significance of latitudinal variation in body size in a holarctic ant, Leptothorax acervorum

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 349-355

  Heinze, Jürgen ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a   Fischer, Birgit ^a   Wanke, Tina ^a   Kipyatkov, Vladilen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BODY SIZE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOTHORAX; LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM;

EID: 0038048949     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03478.x     Document Type: Article

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