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In Myrmecology and Forest Ecology , a devil's garden is a large stand of Tree s in the Amazon rainforest consisting almost exclusively of a single species, '' Duroia Hirsuta ''. Devil's gardens are immediately recognizable because the dominance of a single tree species is dramatically different from the Biodiversity of the forest as a whole. According to Deborah Gordon devil's gardens got their name because locals believed that an evil forest spirit " Chuyathaqi " lived in them. The '' ants in 'devil's gardens' is increased herbivory on ''Duroia hirsuta'' trees." ''Proc. R. Soc. B''. 274(1613): 1117-23.. Frederickson points out that this Symbiosis is an example of Niche Construction . REFERENCES
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