Assessing factors influencing the spatial distribution of species diversity in ground dwelling ant assemblages in lowland, wet forest of southwest Sri Lanka

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Assessing factors influencing the spatial distribution of species diversity in ground dwelling ant assemblages in lowland, wet forest of southwest Sri Lanka

Tropical forests of the world are fast disappearing and there is a race to understand patterns of species distribution in space and time. Studying species distributions can provide better frameworks for conservation of these ecologically important patches of floral and faunal diversity. The island o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gunawardene, Nihara R
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2008
Subjects:	ground dwelling ants species distributions tropical forests Sri Lanka environmental gradients
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1969

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