Imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) mound shape characteristics along a north-south gradient

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-205

  Vogt, James T ^a   Wallet, Bradley ^b   Freeland Jr , Thomas B ^c,d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Automated Decisions   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d Ayers Delta Implement   (United States)

Author keywords

Insolation; Nest orientation; Remote sensing; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEIGHT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSOLATION; NEST; ORIENTATION; RAINFALL; SHAPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RAIN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 39749171759     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[198:IFAHFM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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