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Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna

BACKGROUND: Ecosystem engineers are species that transform habitats in ways that influence other species.While the impacts of many engineers have been well described, our understanding of how their impact varies along environmental gradients remains limited. Although disentangling the effects of gra...

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Autores principales: Costa, Alan N., Bruna, Emilio M., Vasconcelos, Heraldo L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30324010
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5612