Sampling of Different Social Categories of Red Wood Ants (Formica s. str.) for Biomonitoring

Environmental Sampling for Trace Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 465-489

  Maavara, Vambola ^a   Martin, Ants Johannes ^a   Oja, Ahto ^b   Nuorteva, Pekka ^b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Pollutant accumulation; Sampling of red wood ants; Social categories of red wood ants; Structure of nests

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; FORMICA; POLLUTANT ACCUMULATION; RED WOOD; SOCIAL CATEGORIES;

MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS;

EID: 84954245465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527615872.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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