Vegetation structure, ecological stability, and low-disturbance regime of abandoned dry grasslands support specific ant assemblages in Central Slovakia

Tuexenia

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 301-315

  Wiezik, Michal ^a   Wieziková, Adela ^a   Svitok, Marek ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Formicidae; Habitat structure; Management; tiavnick vrchy Mts

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052667066     PISSN: 0722494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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