Fire in the Amazon: impact of experimental fuel addition on responses of ants and their interactions with myrmecochorous seeds

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2016-05-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-016-3638-xPMID 27206792
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