Productivity in a social wasp: Per capita output increases with swarm size

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-48

  Jeanne, Robert L ^a   Nordheim, Erik V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony size; Polistinae; Productivity; Social wasps; Swarms; Vespidae

Indexed keywords

COLONY PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SWARM SIZE; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; POLYBIA OCCIDENTALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0029730071     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.1.43     Document Type: Article

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