Symbiotic ants as an alternative defense against giraffe herbivory in spinescent Acacia drepanolobium
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 91 (2) , 235-238
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00317789
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