The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants

272 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– © 2018 The Authors. This is an Online Open article This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Subject Editor: Michael Kaspari Editor-in-Chief: Miguel Araújo Accepted 18 May 2018 42: 272–283, 2019 doi: 10.1111/ecog.03871 doi: 10.1111/ecog.03871 42 272–283

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  2018

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  Ecography

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  2018-07-04

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  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ecog.03871
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