Riverine landscape patch heterogeneity drives riparian ant assemblages in the scioto river basin, USA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Tagwireyi, Paradzayi ^b   Mazeika S ^a   Sullivan, P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SCRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; FOREST; GRASSLAND; OHIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; RIVER; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE;

SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; FORESTS; GRASSLAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OHIO; PLANTS; POACEAE; RIVERS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84929485375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124807     Document Type: Article

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