Thesis
Plant ecology of ant-hills in grassland
- Abstract:
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Mounds built in pastures by the subterranean ant Lasius flavus often have a vegetation which differs markedly from their surroundings. I set out to compare the relative abundances of plant species on and off ant-hills in some grasslands in southern Britain, and to define those characteristics of species which mainly determine their success or failure on the mounds.
Large ant-hills and the surrounding grassland ware sampled in detail at five acid grassland sites in the Gowe...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1972
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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601870028
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- td:601870028
- Deposit date:
- 2015-03-25
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- Copyright holder:
- King, T
- Copyright date:
- 1972
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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