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12 - Playing the System: The Impacts of Invasive Ants and Plants on Facultative Ant-Plant Interactions

from Part IV - Effect of Invasive Ants on Plants and Their Mutualists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2017

By
Suzanne Koptur ,
Ian M. Jones ,
Hong Liu  and
Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo
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. 249 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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