Population responses to environmental change in a tropical ant: the interaction of spatial and temporal dynamics.

Spatial structure can have a profound, but often underappreciated, effect on the temporal dynamics of ecosystems. Here we report on a counterintuitive increase in the population of a tree-nesting ant, Azteca sericeasur, in response to a drastic reduction in the number of potential nesting sites. Thi...

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Main Authors: Doug Jackson, John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto, Stacy M Philpott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4026481?pdf=render