Seed harvester and scavenger ants along roadsides in northern israel

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-82

  Itzhak, Martinez Jean Jacques ^a  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Mediterranean Bata and Maquis; Messor; Tapinoma

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NEST SITE; SCAVENGER; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MESSOR; MESSOR SEMIRUFUS; TAPINOMA; TAPINOMA ERRATICUM; TAPINOMA ISRAELE;

EID: 50849137145     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2008.10638291     Document Type: Article

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