Competition hierarchy in the ground foraging ant community in a wet evergreen forest (Western Ghats, India): Role of interference behaviour

Current Science

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-179

  Basu, P ^a,b  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Ctr for Intgd Rural Development   (India)

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