The habitat saturation hypothesis and sociality in an allodapine bee: Cooperative nesting is not "making the best of a bad situation"

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 267-274

  Bull, Nicholas J ^a   Schwarz, Michael P ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bees; Brood defence; Exoneura; Habitat saturation hypothesis; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

BEE; BROOD DEFENCE; COOPERATIVE NESTING; HABITAT SATURATION HYPOTHESIS; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIALITY;

ALLODAPINAE; EXONEURA BICOLOR; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030303048     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050289     Document Type: Article

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