Salted roads and sodium limitation in a northern forest ant community

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 543-548

  Kaspari, Michael ^a,b   Chang, Charlotte ^c   Weaver, Johanna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^d OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Foraging; Landscape; Nutrition; Pollution; Soil

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; POLLUTION EFFECT; RESOURCE USE; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SALT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SUCROSE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; TAPINOMA SESSILE;

EID: 77956418618     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01209.x     Document Type: Article

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