Contribution of wet zone coconut plantations and non-agricultural lands to the conservation of ant communities (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sri Lanka
Agricultural practices are blamed for the reduction of ant diversity on earth. Contribution of four coconut plantations (CP) and four non-agricultural lands (NL) for sustaining diversity and relative abundance of ground-dwelling and ground-foraging ants was investigated by surveying them from May to...
Main Authors: | R.K.S. Dias, W.P.S.P. Premadasa |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution
2020-12-01
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Series: | Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень |
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Online Access: | http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16(2)_25_Dias_Premadasa.pdf |
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