Wood Ant (Formica polyctena) Services and Disservices in a Danish Apple Plantation
Ants possess properties that can be used to optimize plant production in agricultural systems. Ant services can be herbivore and pathogen protection and fertilization of their plant partners. They may, however, also harm plants by facilitating ant-attended herbivorous homopterans. To assess whether...
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Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
2019-08-01
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Series: | Sociobiology |
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Online Access: | http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/4251 |