Forest clearing and sex ratio in forest-dwelling wood ant Formica aquilonia

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 392-395

  Sorvari, Jouni ^a,b   Hakkarainen, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Environmental sex allocation; Forest fragmentation; Formicidae; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLEARCUTTING; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANT; APHID; ARTICLE; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOREST; HABITAT; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; SEX RATIO; TREE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; OVIPOSITION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; TREES;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; FORMICA AQUILONIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34247352882     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0201-3     Document Type: Article

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