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Spatial structure and nest demography reveal the influence of competition, parasitism and habitat quality on slavemaking ants and their hosts

BACKGROUND: Natural communities are structured by intra-guild competition, predation or parasitism and the abiotic environment. We studied the relative importance of these factors in two host-social parasite ecosystems in three ant communities in Europe (Bavaria) and North America (New York, West Vi...

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Autores principales: Scharf, Inon, Fischer-Blass, Birgit, Foitzik, Susanne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21443778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-11-9