Stabilizing Mutualisms Threatened by Exploiters: New Insights from Ant–Plant Research

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  2013

• Venue

  Biotropica

• Publication date

  2013-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/btp.12059
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