Structural changes over time in individual‐based networks involving a harvester ant, seeds, and invertebrates

1. Harvester ants perform important ecological functions, such as seed predation and redistribution of nutrients in the soil, through a complex of ecological interactions. Most studies are static descriptions of network structure, while their temporal organisations and the factors that modulate it have been neglected.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Ecological Entomology

• Publication date

  2019-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/een.12764
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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