The Potential Role of Scattered Trees for Ant Conservation in an Agriculturally Dominated Neotropical Landscape

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Biotropica

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/btp.12045
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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