High rates of army ant raids in the Neotropics and implications for ant colony and community structure

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 933-939

  Kaspari, Michael ^a   O'Donnell, Sean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Army ants; Ecitoninae; Latitudinal gradient; Life history; Litter; Predation; Soil; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ECITON; ECITONINAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 2542452344     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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