Interactions between ants and breeding Paridae in two distinct Corsican oak habitats

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 264-268

  Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a   Schatz, Bertrand ^a   Bourgault, Patrice ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ant; Ant bird interactions; Corsica; Crematogaster scutellaris; Paridae

Indexed keywords

ANT; BREEDING POPULATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CREMATOGASTER SCUTELLARIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PARIDAE;

EID: 53549088927     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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