Carbohydrate as Fuel for Foraging, Resource Defense and Colony Growth – a Long‐term Experiment with the Plant‐ant Crematogaster nigriceps

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Biotropica

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/btp.12040
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