Method review: Estimation of colony densities of the army ant Eciton burchellii in Costa Rica

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 259-262

  Vidal Riggs, John M ^a   Chaves Campos, Johel ^b  

^a CARROLL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant following bird; Antbird; La Selva; Phaenostictus; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANT; CENSUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PASSERINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFALL; TELEMETRY; TRACKING; WALKING;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

AVES; ECITON BURCHELLI; PHAENOSTICTUS;

EID: 41549104642     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00347.x     Document Type: Review

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