Community structure and the habitat templet: ants in the tropical forest canopy and litter

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Oikos

• Publication date

  2000-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1034/J.1600-0706.2000.890206.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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