Termite diversity and abundance across fire-induced habitat variability in a tropical moist savanna (lamto, central Côte d'Ivoire)

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-334

  Dosso, Kanvaly ^a   Konaté, Souleymane ^a   Aidara, Daouda ^a   Linsenmair, K E ^b  

^a Station d'Écologie de Lamto   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feeding group; Habitat variability; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Lamto; Moist savanna; Species distribution; Termite community

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FIRE HISTORY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERMITE; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; TRINERVITERMES;

EID: 77952532223     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467410000015     Document Type: Article

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