Using ground foraging ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) functional groups as bioindicators of forest health in northern Arizona ponderosa pine forests

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 937-949

  Stephens, S Sky ^a   Wagner, Michael R ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Forest health; Formicidae; Functional groups

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOINDICATOR; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST HEALTH; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; PITFALL TRAP; SILVICULTURE; THINNING; WILDFIRE;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 33750269928     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-35.4.937     Document Type: Article

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