The socioecology of body size variation in the primitively eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-76

  Richards, Miriam H ^a,b   Packer, Laurence ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALICTUS LIGATUS; HALICTIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

BODY SIZE; COLONY ORGANIZATION; EUSOCIALITY; SWEAT BEE;

CANADA, ONTARIO, VICTORIA;

EID: 0030302146     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545586     Document Type: Article

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