Effect of agricultural land-use change on ant dominance hierarchy and food preferences in a temperate oak forest

Background The discovery-dominance trade-off is the inverse relationship between the ability of a species to discover resources and the species’ dominance of those resources; a paradigm used to explain species coexistence in ant communities dependent on similar resources. However, factors such as st...

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Main Authors: Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Mariana Cuautle, Carlos Lara, Brenda Juárez-Juárez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-01-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/6255.pdf