Problems with the interpretation of mark-release-recapture data in subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-241

  Curtis, Anthony D ^a   Waller, Deborah A ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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