Seed drops and caches by the harvester ant Messor barbarus: do they contribute to seed dispersal in Mediterranean grasslands?

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Die Naturwissenschaften

• Publication date

  2000-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s001140050744PMID 11013892
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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