Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: topsoil and litter perturbations aroundAtta cephalotesnests reduce nutrient availability-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: topsoil and litter perturbations aroundAtta cephalotesnests reduce nutrient availability

Published:2013-06-11 Issue:5 Volume:38 Page:497-504
ISSN:0307-6946
Container-title:Ecological Entomology
language:en
Short-container-title:Ecol Entomol

Author:

MEYER SEBASTIAN T.¹,NEUBAUER MEIKE¹,SAYER EMMA J.²,LEAL INARA R.³,TABARELLI MARCELO³,WIRTH RAINER¹

Affiliation:

1. Plant Ecology and Systematics; University of Kaiserslautern; Kaiserslautern; Germany

2. Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems; The Open University; Milton Keynes; U.K.

3. Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife; Brazil

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Insect Science,Ecology

Link

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/een.12043/fullpdf

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