Effects of a fern-dwelling ant species, Crematogaster difformis, on the ant assemblages of emergent trees in a Bornean tropical rainforest

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 592-598

  Tanaka, H O ^a   Yamane, S ^b   Itioka, T ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competitiveexclusion; Epiphytes; Forest canopy; Myrmecophytes; South East Asian tropics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; COLONY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EMERGENCE; EPIPHYTE; FERN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST CANOPY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRITORY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA;

CREMATOGASTER DIFFORMIS; FILICOPHYTA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 84863666104     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/AN11149     Document Type: Article

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