Nutritional preferences of wood-feeding termites inhabiting floodplain forests of the Amazon River, Brazil

The alimentary preferences of five species of wood-feeding termites of the genus Nasutitermes that coexist in the inundated forests of the floodplains of the Amazon river várzea for species of fresh wood and for wood in different stages of decomposition was evaluated in laboratory tests. Wood of low...

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Published in:	Acta Amazonica
Main Authors:	Norma Cecilia Rodriguez BUSTAMANTE, Christopher MARTIUS
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 1998-09-01
Subjects:	Amazon River Floodplain Forest Termites Wood Consumption Preference Ecological Niche Concept
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671998000300301&tlng=en