Estimating population size and forager movement in a tropical subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 823-830

  Evans, Theodore A ^a   Lenz, Michael ^a   Gleeson, Patrick V ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Coptotermes acinaciformis; Mark recapture; Mound building; Nile Blue A

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; TERMITE;

AUSTRALIA;

COPTOTERMES ACINACIFORMIS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0032725976     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/28.5.823     Document Type: Article

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