Placing an omnivore in a complex food web: Dietary contributions to adult biomass of an ant

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 266-271

  Tillberg, Chadwick V ^a,b   Breed, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Diet analysis; Omnivory; Paraponera clavata; Stable isotope analysis; Wet tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ANT; DIET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NECTAR; OMNIVORY; PREY SELECTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PARAPONERA; PARAPONERA CLAVATA;

EID: 2942640602     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00318.x     Document Type: Article

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