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20 - Why Study Ant-Plant Interactions?

from Part VI - Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2017

By
Andrew J. Beattie
Edited by
Paulo S. Oliveira  and
Suzanne Koptur
Paulo S. Oliveira
Affiliation:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Suzanne Koptur
Affiliation:
Florida International University
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Ant-Plant Interactions
Impacts of Humans on Terrestrial Ecosystems
 , pp. 410 - 418
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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