Apparent dear-enemy phenomenon and environment-based recognition cues in the ant Leptothorax nylanderi

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 510-522

  Heinze, Jurgen ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a   Hippert, Andreas ^a   Hölldobler, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; LEPTOTHORAX GREDLERI; LEPTOTHORAX NYLANDERI; QUERCUS; HYMENOPTERA;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOUR; ANT COLONY; DEAR ENEMY; HOME RANGE;

GERMANY, BAVARIA, WURZBURG;

EID: 0029660090     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01143.x     Document Type: Article

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