Lenticular soil mounds in the Kenya highlands
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 66 (1) , 116-121
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00378562
Abstract
Soil mounds in moist grassland at moderate altitudes in the Kenya Highlands have recently been interpreted as being formed by burrowing molerats. Evidence is presented here that these mounds contain active nests of Odontotermes spp. and are likely to have been built by the termites.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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