Ants as biological indicators of Wayana Amerindian land use in French Guiana

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 332, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 673-684

  Delabie, Jacques H C ^a   Céréghino, Régis ^b   Groc, Sarah ^c   Dejean, Andrea ^c   Gibernau, Marc ^b   Corbara, Bruno ^d   Dejean, Alain ^c  

^a Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Formicidae; Landscape ecology; Pit fall traps; Rapid assessment; Self Organizing Maps; Traditional land use

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOINDICATOR; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANTATION; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ANT; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FRENCH GUIANA; HABITAT USE; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION; TREES;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 67349177756     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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