Assembly rules of ground-foraging ant assemblages are contingent on disturbance, habitat and spatial scale - Sanders, Nathan J.; Gotelli, Nicholas J.; Wittman, Sarah E.; Ratchford, Jaime S.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Jules, Erik S. (Journal of biogeography, 2007)
Keywords: Animal and plant ecology; Animal ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Ants; Biological and medical sciences; Coexistence; Community structure; disturbance; Ecological Biogeography; Ecological competition; Fens; fire; Forest and land fires; Forest fires; Forest habitats; Forest insects; Formicidae; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Insect ecology; niche partitioning; Phytopathology. Animal pests. Plant and forest protection; Siskiyou Mountains; Synecology; Weather damages. Fires; Community structure; Siskiyou Mountains; disturbance; Formicidae; Insecta; Biogeography; Coexistence; Spatial scale; Perturbation; Social insect; Formicoidea; Foraging behavior; Mountain; Arthropoda; Fire; Ecological niche; Ecological segregation; niche partitioning; Habitat; Hymenoptera; Invertebrata; Community; Aculeata