Mound dimensions, internal structure and potential colony size in the fungus growing termite Macrotermes michaelseni (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-38

  Schuurman, Gregor ^b   Dangerfield, J Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b NONE

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