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Landscape-level bird loss increases the prevalence of honeydew-producing insects and non-native ants

Bird exclusion experiments consistently show that birds exhibit strong top-down control of arthropods, including ants and the honeydew-producing insects (HPIs) that they tend. However, it remains unclear whether the results of these small-scale bird exclosure experiments can be extrapolated to large...

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Autores principales: Freedman, Micah G., Miller, Ross H., Rogers, Haldre S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30367244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4273-5