Effect of the physiological stress in two species of ants (formicidae) that inhabit coffee plantations with and without shade;Sección morfología, comportamiento, ecología, evolución y sistemáticaefecto del estrés fisiológico en dos especies de hormigas (formicidae) propias de cafetales con y sin sombra

Revista Colombiana de Entomologia

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-66

  Vargas O, Germán A ^a   Rivera, Leonardo F ^b   Armbrecht, Inge ^b  

^a Ingeniero Agrónomo ^*  (Mexico)

^b Universidad del Valle   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agriculture intensification; Coffee crops; Paratrechina steinheili; Tetramorium simillimum; Thermal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; PARATRECHINA STEINHEILI; TETRAMORIUM SIMILLIMUM;

EID: 33748603864     PISSN: 01200488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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