By Paulo S. Oliveira,Suzanne Koptur

ISBN-10: 110715975X

ISBN-13: 9781107159754

Ants are the most dominant insect kinfolk on the earth, and flowering vegetation were the dominant plant staff on land for greater than a hundred million years. In fresh many years, human actions have degraded typical environments with unprecedented pace and scale, making it more and more obvious that interspecific interactions differ not just below various ecological stipulations and throughout habitats, but in addition in keeping with anthropogenic international swap. this is often the 1st quantity solely dedicated to the anthropogenic results at the interactions among those significant parts of terrestrial ecosystems. a prime staff of participants file their examine from quite a few temperate and tropical ecosystems around the globe, together with South, primary and North the US, Africa, Japan, Polynesia, Indonesia and Australia. It presents an in-depth precis of the present figuring out for researchers already familiar with insect-plant interactions, but is written at a degree to provide a window into the ecology of ant-plant interactions for the more often than not uninitiated overseas clinical community.

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