Dominant meat ants affect only their specialist predator in an epigaeic arthropod community

Oecologia

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 609-615

  Gibb, Heloise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Dominant ant; Epigaeic arthropods; Iridomyrmex purpureus; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PREDATION;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ARTHROPODS; BIOMASS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; IRIDOMYRMEX PURPUREUS; ZODARIIDAE;

EID: 0141457861     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1299-z     Document Type: Article

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