Can ants be used as ecological indicators of restoration progress in dynamic environments? A case study in a revegetated riparian zone

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1517-1525

  Gollan, John R ^a,b   Bruyn, Lisa Lobry De ^b   Reid, Nick ^b   Smith, Derek ^a   Wilkie, Lance ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Chronosequence; Formicidae; Hunter Valley; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

ANT SPECIES; CHRONOSEQUENCES; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; FORMICIDAE; HABITAT TYPE; HUNTER VALLEY; PERIODIC DISTURBANCES; PREDICTIVE POWER; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIPARIAN HABITATS; RIPARIAN ZONES; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECIES ASSEMBLAGE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL TYPE;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ECOSYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; REVEGETATION; VEGETATION;

RESTORATION;

ANT; BIOINDICATOR; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; MINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; HUNTER VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

CAMPONOTINI; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79958139419     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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