Non-additive benefit or cost? Disentangling the indirect effects that occur when plants bearing extrafloral nectaries and honeydew-producing insects share exotic ant mutualists.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Annals of Botany

• Publication date

  2013-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/aob/mct082PMID 23609021PMCID PMC3662523
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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