Assembling an ant community: species functional traits reflect environmental filtering

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-012-2262-7PMID 22294027
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