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CARPENTER ANT (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) INDUCED WIND BREAKAGE IN NEW JERSEY SHADE TREES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
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Carpenter ants are indigenous to holarctic forests. Nests in standing trees begin at wound sites, and expand rapidly as workers gnaw galleries in the heartwood (Graham 1918; Anderson 1960). In forests, carpenter ants have been implicated in wind breakage of standing trees (Felt 1928; Schread 1952), yet the exact extent and nature of this relationship remains undocumented.
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