Foraging behaviour and colony structure in ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-153

  Herbers, Joan M ^a,b   Choiniere, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0029730687     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0012     Document Type: Article

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