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SUBMITTER: Ferrante M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5632606 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferrante Marco M González Ezequiel E Lövei Gábor L GL
Ecology and evolution 20170822 19
South America is undergoing a rapid and large-scale conversion of natural habitats to cultivated land. Ecosystem services still remain important but their level and sustainability are not known. We quantified predation intensity in an Argentinian agricultural landscape containing remnants of the original chaco serrano forest using artificial sentinel prey. We sought to identify the main predators and the effect of landscape configuration and maize phenology on predation pressure by invertebrate ...[more]