Spatial distribution of dominant arboreal ants in a Malagasy coastal rainforest: Gaps and presence of an invasive species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Dejean, Alain ^a   Fisher, Brian L ^b   Corbara, Bruno ^c   Rarevohitra, Raymond ^d   Randrianaivo, Richard ^e   Rajemison, Balsama ^e   Leponce, Maurice ^f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d Centre de Recherches Forestières et Piscicoles FOFIFA Ambatobe   (Madagascar)

^e PARC BOTANIQUE ET ZOOLOGIQUE DE TSIMBAZAZA   (Madagascar)

^f ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BRACHYMYRMEX CORDEMOYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREMATOGASTER; CREMATOGASTER MADAGASCARIENSIS; CREMATOGASTER RANAVALONAE; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRID; MADAGASCAR; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SEASHORE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; TAPINOMA SUBTILE; TECHNOMYRMEX ALBIPES; TETRAPONERA LONGULA; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BRACHYMYRMEX CORDEMOYI; CREMATOGASTER RANAVALONAE; FORMICIDAE; MASOALA; TECHNOMYRMEX ALBIPES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MADAGASCAR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77949536220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009319     Document Type: Article

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