Congruence of data from different trapping periods of ant pitfall catches (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-116

  Steiner, Florian M ^a   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a   Moder, Karl ^a   Bruckner, Alexander ^a   Christian, Erhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bray Curtis similarity index; Community ecology; Formicidae; Method; Pitfall traps; Quantification; Rank correlation; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 22844450528     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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