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Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants

Understanding how species assemble into communities is a key goal in ecology. However, assembly rules are rarely tested experimentally, and their ability to shape real communities is poorly known. We surveyed a diverse community of epiphyte-dwelling ants and found that similar-sized species co-occur...

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Autores principales: Fayle, Tom M, Eggleton, Paul, Manica, Andrea, Yusah, Kalsum M, Foster, William A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25622647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12403