Ants and the enigmatic Namibian fairy circles - cause and effect?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-42

  Picker, Mike D ^a   Ross Gillespie, Vere ^a   Vlieghe, Kelly ^a   Moll, Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anoplolepis; Ant nests; Ecosystem engineers; Fairy circles; Namibia; Pogonomyrmex discs

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGRESSION; ANT; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; GRASSLAND; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERTURBATION; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; SECRETION; SENESCENCE; SOIL MOISTURE; TERMITE;

NAMIBIA;

ANOPLOLEPIS; ANOPLOLEPIS STEINGROEVERI; CILIOPHORA; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICIDAE; ISOPTERA; MEENOPLIDAE; POACEAE; POGONOMYRMEX; STIPAGROSTIS CILIATA; STIPAGROSTIS OBTUSA;

EID: 84856055310     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01332.x     Document Type: Article

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