Quality of Agroecological Matrix in a Tropical Montane Landscape : Ants in Coffee Plantations in Southern Mexico

Conservation efforts in fragmented landscapes frequently focus on characteristics of the habitat fragments. We propose that the matrix within which habitat fragments occur is of equal importance and focus on quality of the matrix as an interesting variable. We studied ground-foraging ants in isolate...

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Veröffentlicht in:Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. - 1999. - 16(2002), 1 vom: 18. Feb., Seite 174-182
1. Verfasser: Perfecto, Ivette (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Vandermeer, John
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2002
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article