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Population Responses to Environmental Change in a Tropical Ant: The Interaction of Spatial and Temporal Dynamics

Spatial structure can have a profound, but often underappreciated, effect on the temporal dynamics of ecosystems. Here we report on a counterintuitive increase in the population of a tree-nesting ant, Azteca sericeasur, in response to a drastic reduction in the number of potential nesting sites. Thi...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Doug, Vandermeer, John, Perfecto, Ivette, Philpott, Stacy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24842117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097809