Ants as indicators of pesticide impacts in banana

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 816-829

  Matlock Jr , Robert B ^a,b   La Cruz, Ramiro De ^a  

^a Escla Agric la Regn Trop Humeda   (Costa Rica)

^b Organization for Tropical Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Banana; Formicidae; Indicator species; Pesticide

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; PESTICIDE; PLANTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BACTRIS GASIPAES; CITRUS; CITRUS SINENSIS; FORMICIDAE; GMELINA ARBOREA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MACADAMIA; MACADAMIA INTEGRIFOLIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0141685629     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.4.816     Document Type: Article

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