Fire ant response to management of native grass conservation buffers

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-291

  Hale, Sarah L ^a   Riffell, Sam ^a   Burger Jr , L Wes ^a   Adams, Heidi L ^a   Dollar, Jolie G ^a  

^a Box 9690 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIRD; BUFFER ZONE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATIVE SPECIES; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PROTECTED AREA; VEGETATION;

AVES; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA;

EID: 80053387570     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-166.2.283     Document Type: Article

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