Arboreal ant species richness in primary forest, secondary forest, and pasture habitats of a tropical montane landscape

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 402-409

  Schonberg, Lisa A ^a,c   Longino, John T ^a   Nadkarni, Nalini M ^a   Yanoviak, Stephen P ^a,d   Gering, Jon C ^b  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Florida Medical Entomology Lab ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Biodiversity; Canopy; Canopy fogging; Cloud forest; Costa Rica; Disturbed habitat; Formicidae; Monteverde; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANOPY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION RISK; SPECIES RICHNESS;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444332800     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00333.x     Document Type: Article

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