Nest site limitation and colony takeover in the ant Leptothorax nylanderi

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 367-375

  Foitzik, Susanne ^a,b   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colony takeover; Competition; Leptothorax; Nest site limitation; Population structure; Social parasitism

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEST SITE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUEEN;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; WURZBURG;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX NYLANDERI;

EID: 0031816549     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.4.367     Document Type: Article

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