Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-163

  Menke, Sean B ^a   Guénard, Benoit ^a   Sexton, Joseph O ^b   Weiser, Michael D ^a   Dunn, Robert R ^a   Silverman, Jules ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant diversity; Range shift; Urban ecology; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79955054212     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-010-0150-7     Document Type: Article

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