Invertebrate conservation in urban areas: Ants in the Brazilian Cerrado

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-199

  Pacheco, Renata ^a   Vasconcelos, Heraldo L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ant communities; Biodiversity conservation; Pheidole megacephala; Urban green spaces; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

ANT COMMUNITIES; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA; URBAN GREEN SPACES; URBANIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; CERRADO; GREENSPACE; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA;

EID: 34249054211     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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