Ant patchiness: A spatially quantitative test in coffee agroecosystems

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 386-392

  Philpott, Stacy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANT; COFFEE; DIVERSITY INDEX; PATCHINESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AGROECOSYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; COFFEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INSECT SOCIETY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PATCH DYNAMICS; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COFFEE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CHIAPAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AZTECA INSTABILIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33746400493     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0123-0     Document Type: Article

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