Opening myrmecochory’s black box: what happens inside the ant nest?

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Ecological research

• Publication date

  2010-03-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11284-010-0700-8
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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