Vertical stratification of the termite assemblage in a neotropical rainforest

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 301-311

  Roisin, Yves ^a   Dejean, Alain ^b   Corbara, Bruno ^c   Orivel, Jerôme ^b   Samaniego, Mirna ^d   Leponce, Maurice ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Canopy; Isoptera; Panama; Species richness; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NEOTROPICAL REGION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERMITE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ISOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ISOPTERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COLON [PANAMA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SAN LORENZO FOREST;

ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MICROCEROTERMES; MICROCEROTERMES ARBOREUS; NASUTITERMES; TERMES HISPANIOLAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 33747076384     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0449-5     Document Type: Article

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