Ants along a Southern African transect - A basis for biodiversity change monitoring (Insecta, hymenoptera, formicidae)

Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 261-273

  Koch, Frank ^a   Vohland, Katrin ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Distribution; Ecology; Formicidae; Namibia; South Africa; Trophic guilds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978078607     PISSN: 14351935     EISSN: 18600743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.20040800206     Document Type: Article

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