GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Insect Conservation and Diversity

• Publication date

  2017-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/icad.12211
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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