How does habitat complexity affect ant foraging success? A test using functional measures on three continents

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2010-06-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-010-1703-4PMID 20589395
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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