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Thermal ecosystem engineering by songbirds promotes a symbiotic relationship with ants

Nesting birds can act as thermal ecosystem engineers by providing warm habitats that may attract arthropods to colonise the nest structure. This cohabitation of birds and nest-dwelling invertebrates may foster symbiotic relationships between them, but evidence is lacking. We investigated whether ant...

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Autores principales: Maziarz, Marta, Broughton, Richard K., Casacci, Luca Pietro, Dubiec, Anna, Maák, István, Witek, Magdalena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33230166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77360-z