Do terrestrial invertebrates experience floodplains as landscape mosaics? Immediate and longer-term effects of flooding on ant assemblages in a floodplain forest

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-238

  Ballinger, Andrea ^a,b   Lake, P S ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Sustainability and Environment ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Disturbance legacy; Diversity; Eucalyptus camaldulensis; Formicidae; River red gum; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

ANT; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; EVERGREEN TREE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; HABITAT MOSAIC; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOBILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; NATURAL DISASTERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34248212727     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0648-0     Document Type: Article

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