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Ecology and Biogeography of the Termites of India

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Ecology and Biogeography in India

Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae ((MOBI,volume 23))

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This chapter summarizes the salient results of two decades’ studies by the author on the general field ecology, distributional peculiarities and faunistic affinities of the termites of the Indian region. Although the termites are perhaps better known than most other groups of insects in this country, there are nevertheless large gaps in our knowledge and many important areas in the country have not been satisfactorily explored so far. In the present state of our knowledge any account of the ecology and biogeography of these insects is therefore bound to be rather sketchy. It is, however, hoped that this chapter will serve to focuss attention on some of the outstanding problems.

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Sen-Sarma, P.K. (1974). Ecology and Biogeography of the Termites of India. In: Mani, M.S. (eds) Ecology and Biogeography in India. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2331-3_14

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