Pollution diminishes intra-specific aggressiveness between wood ant colonies

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3189-3192

  Sorvari, Jouni ^a   Eeva, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Air pollution; Behaviour; Boreal forests; Formica; Heavy metals

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; ANT COLONIES; ANT SPECIES; BEHAVIOUR; BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; BOREAL AND TEMPERATE FOREST; BOREAL FORESTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORMICA; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; METAL TOXICITY; RESOURCE LEVELS; SECONDARY POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; HEAVY METALS; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; METALS;

POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT;

ANT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOREAL FOREST; COLONY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAVY METAL; PREDATOR; TOXICITY; WILD POPULATION;

AGGRESSION; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOREST; FORMICA AQUILONIA; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; METALS, HEAVY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; FORMICA; FORMICA AQUILONIA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953725593     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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