Diversity and nest site selection of social wasps along Guianese forest edges: assessing the influence of arboreal ants

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 332, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 470-479

  Corbara, Bruno ^a   Carpenter, J M ^b   Cereghino R ^c   Leponce, M ^d   Gibernau, M ^c   Dejean, Alain ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ant wasp plant interactions; Diversity; French Guiana; Nest site selection; Polistinae

Indexed keywords

ANT; FOREST EDGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEST SITE; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASP;

ANT; ARTICLE; BIRDS BY NESTING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FOREST; FRENCH GUIANA; HABITAT SELECTION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; WASP;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FRENCH GUIANA; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PLANTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; WASPS;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; POLISTINAE;

EID: 64849108769     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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