Spatial and temporal foraging overlaps in a Chacoan ground-foraging ant assemblage

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-44

  Delsinne, T ^a,b   Roisin, Y ^b   Leponce, M ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Food partitioning; Formicidae; Interspecific competition; Null model analysis; Species coexistence; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANT; COEXISTENCE; DIETARY OVERLAP; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GRAN CHACO; SOUTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 34347258804     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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