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Effects of habitat fragmentation on ant richness and functional composition in Brazilian Atlantic forest

2012-06-01

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Ants are a dominant faunal group in tropical forests, but their responses to human disturbances remain poorly investigated. Here we examine the relative effects of habitat fragmentation (fragment size and amount of forest cover retained in the surrounding landscape) and habitat structure (tree density and richness) on ant species and functional composition in the Atlantic forest of northeast Brazil. Our study was...

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Literature Corpus work: b413cb1a-7a0f-5379-a198-985a81e8cead
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0271-9

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