Ecological Archives E096-243-A1

Ecological Archives E096-243-A1

Javier Retana, Xavier Arnan, and Xim Cerda. 2015. A multidimensional functional trait analysis of resource exploitation in European ants. Ecology 96:2781–2793. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2326.1

Appendix A. Literature sources from which functional trait data for ant species were obtained.

Worker size and worker polymorphism

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