An ant mosaic revisited: Dominant ant species disassemble arboreal ant communities but co-occur randomly

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 422-427

  Sanders, Nathan J ^a   Crutsinger, Gregory M ^a   Dunn, Robert R ^b   Majer, Jonathan D ^c   Delabie, Jacques H C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Cocoa Research Center ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Brazil; Co occurrence; Community structure; Null model; Tropical diversity

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT MOSAIC; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 34247329510     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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