Ant Profiler - A database of ecological characteristics of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Myrmecological News

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-76

  Bertelsmeier, Cleo ^a   Luque, Gloria M ^a   Confais, Amandine ^a   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 84875511034     PISSN: 19944136     EISSN: 19973500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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