A multisource solution for a complex problem in biodiversity research: Description of the cryptic ant species Tetramorium alpestre sp.n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 223-254

  Steiner, Florian M ^a   Seifert, Bernhard ^b   Moder, Karl ^c   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine; Integrative taxonomy; Mitochondrial DNA; Morphometrics; Tetramorium caespitum; Tetramorium impurum; Tetramorium sp. A; Tetramorium sp. B; Thermal niche; Western Palearctic

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; COMPLEXITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NICHE; PALEARCTIC ECOZONE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TAXONOMY;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TETRAMORIUM; TETRAMORIUM CAESPITUM; TETRAMORIUM IMPURUM;

EID: 78349307850     PISSN: 00445231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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