Ecological engineering by a native leaf-cutting ant increases the performance of exotic plant species

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2010-02-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s00442-010-1589-1PMID 20179970
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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