Removal rates of seeds of five myrmecochorous plants by the ant Formica polyctena (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Oikos

• Publication date

  1995-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/3545960
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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